CONVERSATION PIECE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 7

CONVERSATION PIECE

COMMENTATOR ON HITLER OUTBURST. Perhaps one of the most Satisfying of all. comments on the latest Hitler outburst was that of Senator Ball of Minnesota: "It sounds like a lot of conversation to me.’’ It is rather charming to think of the mud-volcano Adolf in one of his usual eruptions, and surrounded by the cheering mobs (who would all be beaten up if they did not cheer), being dismissed with a drawl as an emitter of mere “conversation.” But, after all, it was in fact rather an intimate affair, and nobody but a Nazi would have selected it for world transmission. Adolph’s history, which he borrows from Truthful Joe, is ludicrous, and can only be accepted for German consumption; and the gen- ’ eral effect of the speech was merely to indicate great annoyance that Britain has friends everywhere while Germany has none except among the supporters of tyranny. It will be a hard world for Germans after this war when they have to come out of their prison-house and face up to the general detestation which their doctrines and behaviour have earned for them. On the subject of possible friends and supporters it may have been noticed that the Fuehrer made another of those conversational slips which are so apt to occur when his frenzy gets the better of discretion. “If the world were full of devils,” he declared at one point, “we should nevertheless prevail.” Exactly; if the world were full of devils the Nazis would undoubtedly prevail, because they would have just the right setting and assistants for their deeds and doctrines. It is precisely because the world is not full of devil's that they have such little backing except their own destructive genius and must one day drink their full cup of defeat and contempt.