AIMS OF THE NAZIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 5

AIMS OF THE NAZIS

“Your Government knows what terms Hitler, if victorious, would impose. They are indeed the only terms on which he would accept a so-called negotiated peace. Germany would literally parcel out the world, hoisting the swastika over vast territories and populations, and setting up puppet governments of her own choosing wholly subject to the will of the conqueror.

“Quislings would be found to subvert the governments in our republics, and the Nazis would back fifth columns with invasion if necessary. The Nazis' plan to treat the Latin American nations as they are now treating the Balkans. They plan to strangle Ihe United Slates. South America and Canada. American labour would have to compete with slave labour in lhe rest of a world of minimum wages and maximum hours. The dignity, power and standard of the American worker and farmer would be gone. Trade unions would become historical relics, and collective bargaining a joke. The American farmer would get for his

products exactly wiiat Hitler wanted to give. He would face obvious disaster. "Complete regimentation and tariff walls would be futile. Freedom of trade is essential to our economic life. The whole fabric of working life as we know it —business. manufacturing, mining, agriculture—all would be mangled and crippled under such a system. "Yet to maintain even that crippled independence would require the permanent conscription of our manpower. We would be pouring our resources into armaments and year in and year out standing watch against the destruction of our cities. "We do not accept and will not permit this Nazi shape of things to come, if we act in this present crisis with the wisdom and courage which have distinguished our country in all crises of the past.