IN MINOR KEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 7

IN MINOR KEY

DESPONDENT SPEECH MADE BY GpEBBELS. TALK OF HEAVY SACRIFICES. ■ (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 16. In a radio address to German seamen over the world, at a function which was attended by seamen’s wives, Dr. Goebbels made a remarkable speech which was full of despondency. "I know of innumerable Germans who have been separated from their wives and families in our country, and who sometimes ask in these difficult weeks the trying question whether the great sacrifice the people are making and must make is worth while. “Let me say that a German victory is composed of thousands and millions of small sacrifices. In 1918 the German people attempted to shirk the decisive hour, and when we remember this our sacrifices, which are sometimes heavy for the people and the Fuehrer, will oe the lighter. •

"Because I am a resident of a town which has not been spared by the British bombing I know that the people in such towns have to make much heavier sacrifice than the people of the towns that are not threatened from the air. If it is now more difficult to live in such towns, it will be much more honourable after the war to live in them.”