NAZI PLANS FOR DEFEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 5

NAZI PLANS FOR DEFEAT

WILL PROVOKE UNITED STATES INTO WAR. It is the conviction of the best informed opinion at Washington that Germany will not hesitate to provoke the United States into a declaration of war, or its equivalent in actual combatancy, whenever the tide of her battle with Britain begins to go against her as a consquence of American aid, writes the Washington correspondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald.” The writer recalls a conversation with a leading agent of America’s intelligence service, one responsible for the watch of German subversive activities in the United States, a former German himself. and perhaps one of the best-in-formed men on Nazi philosophy. He said: “A thing but little understood in America is the course of procedure which the Nazi Party keeps in reserve in the event of defeat. Its published literature, from ‘Mein Kampf’ down to the last printed instruction to the teacher in a German kindergarten, only retails how to win the ‘struggle.” But their secret tenets involve a definite course of action in the event of victory being impossible. It is ‘lf you cannot defeat your enemy, pull him down with you.’ Here lies a significance that has escaped those who foresee the defeat of Germany.”