FATE OF NATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 9

FATE OF NATIONS

IN HITLER’S EUROPEAN ORDER POVERTY AND SLAVERY. ROBBERY BY SCIENTIFIC METHODS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 3. Hitler’s new European order was the subject of a speech today by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Mr. Dingle Foot, who pointed out that the concentration camp and the Gestapo would accompany the Nazis wherever they went and would suppress freedom as it had already been suppressed in Germany itself.

But the latest developments, Mr. Foot said, went beyond even that. However active Himmler might be, only a certain number of persons could ever be placed behind barbed wire and the average man could keep out of danger by doing as he was told and expressing no adverse opinions. In the occupied countries, Nazi methods could go further and aim at reducing whole nations to conditions of permanent servitude and bitter bondage which, Mr. Foot said, were only comparable to the lot of the Israelites when they were captive in Egypt. They had one advantage over the new slave race of Germany, for at least the Israelites had plenty to eat. “These things are not passing phenomena,” he continued. The German leaders have made it clear that never again, if they have their way, will the other peoples in Europe, be permitted the same standard of life, or even the same quantity of clothes and food, as the dominant German race.” Mr. Foot pointed out that Dr. Ley himself declared a short time ago that a “lower race needs less clothes, less food and less culture than a higher race.” Turning to the methods by which the occupied territories were being plundered, Mr. Foot said the Germans had reduced robbery to an exact science, and though in each country the method was different the effect was the same. In Denmark, he pointed out, an enormous credit balance had been built up in favour of the Danes which had resulted in great supplies leaving Denmark and nothing coming back. French shopkeepers were compelled to accept the greatly over-valued mark, while in Belgium a quantity of cattle had been slaughtered and sent to Germany.

These things also were not intended to be temporary, said Mr. Foot, and he cited a declaration of the Nazi Economic Minister, Dr. Funk, that the new economic order must ensure Germany the maximum consumption and biggest possible standard of living. These advantages, Mr. Foot pointed out, were to accrue only to Germany. The new order, he said, means systematic exploitation for the great majority of Europeans, and he concluded: “It follows that in this war we are fighting to resist not only monstrous evil and tyranny but also the deliberate and perpetual impoverishment of millions of men.”

NAZI REVELATION TREATMENT OF THE POLES. DECENCY CALLED SILLY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 3. A forecast of the German “New European Order” as it effects non-Ger-mans is sometimes given in the speeches of the less important party officials. While the Nazi leaders are endeavouring by vague phrases to lull the apprehensions of the peoples whom they hope to dominate, other members of the party, who after all are the officials who carry out the policy, let it be seen what a German-controlled continent really entails.

Thus the Propaganda Leader, Herr Maul, expressing his views on the proper relations which should exist between Germans and Poles, said, according to a report in the “Litzmannstraedter Zeitung,” on October 28, while addressing a large Hitler youth gathering:— “We must have proper relations with the other peoples here. First are the Poles. They have become too insolent, not because they are courageous, but becase the Germans are so decent. They interpret decency as silliness, therefore we must restore order. As masters of this land, masters of these streets, are we getting these considerations? Here we must maintain a special attitude. A German in this country is never a private man. Every German striding through this country is one of Adolf Hitler’s messengers, and must behave accordingly.”