GERMANS GLOOMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1941, Page 5

GERMANS GLOOMY

TIRED AS FEW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WITHOUT BREAKING DOWN. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT. 'By Telegraph—Press Associaiion—Copyright' LONDON. January 12. After six years in Berlin a correspondent of an important Chicago newspaper. an American, has returned to the United States to describe the present state of the German people as he saw ii. He said the German people are tired as few people in the world have ever been without breaking down. “The longer the war lasts the more the Germans will wonder if it is worth fighting." he said. He described the endless columns of disconsolate German soldiers pouring through Berlin and other German cities on their, way to the front and to occupied countries, and he also described the apathy of the people in the streets. He never heard a cheer, not even after the news that France had asked for terms.

Probably this spreading gloom in Germany accounts for much of the energy which the Nazi Party is once more putting into their talks on the invasion of Britain. Yesterday, Dr Goebbels referred to it in his usual sinister style, and this was followed up today by a German commentator speaking in English, who said: “What doesn't- happen in a year may happen in a moment.”