PEACE BLITZ

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 5

PEACE BLITZ

ANTICIPATED BY MR EDEN

HITLER’S NEXT MOVE

LIKELY TO BE MONUMENT OF MODERATION.

AND OF HYPOCRISY.

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) . RUGBY, July 29.

Speaking in London, I lie Foreign Secretary (31 r Anthony Eden) said: “Four great communities are moving ever closer together in their determination to withstand the common, menace ol: Hitler and of any who works for him. The Soviet Union, China, the United States and the British Empire are surely pretty formidable obstacles to aggression. It may be this sense of events to come which is causing a new note to creep into Hitler propaganda, covertly for the present but we may be sure more openly later on.

“Hitler has broken countless promises,” Mr Eden continued. "He has betrayed in turn every nation to which he has given pledges. But now, for the first time, there is a change. Now he is trying desperately to keep a promise. It is the promise he made to the German people —a promise that the war shall end this year in a victorious German peace. Hitler’s timetable plainly is out of joint. The Russians are putting up a magnificent resistance, which clearly exceeds German calculations and many other calculations also.”

Mr Eden added that a “peace blitz” would, soon be hurled at the Allies, and repeated the assurance that the British Government was not prepared to negotiate with Hitler at any time on any subject. The offer of a compromise peace would be a monument of moderation and sweet reasonableness —and hypocrisy. “Every nation would have to remain at war stations so as not to be caught unawares by a sudden attack, launched without warning,” Mr Edon continued. “We could never demobilise, we could never relax war preparations and war restrictions. The fortifications round our coasts could not be removed. Our factories would have to continue the manufacture of munitions of war to keep up with those which Hiller would be piling up in secret for the next war —his next bid for world domination. Hitler is not a rare and transient phenomenon in German history, he is a symptom. He is an expression of the present German will and temper which has shown itself over and over again in German history. CONDITIONS OF PEACE. “If we are to have peace in our lifetime, the German people must learn to unlearn all they have been taught, not only by Hitler but by his predecessors for the last hundred years. They can never even start to do this until Hitler, the great war-maker, has been exposed as a fraud and deposed. Keeping watch and ward, it will be our duty to start at once upon the fashioning of the world in such a shape that causes of rivalry and hatred may gradually be removed, and we pray eventually eradicated. Here in London are the Governments of many Afllied Powers. They form an invaluable nucleus for the work we have to do. We are already meeting and discussing our problems, though not always publicly. If we can look forward in all this work to the sympathy and co-operat-ion of the United States, and indeed the American continent as a whole, then we can feel we are building on a solid foundation.”

Speaking of the future, Mr Eden said that although military measures were essential, it was not part of the British purpose to cause Germany or any other country to collapse economically, He said this, not out of any love for

Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst. of Europe would poison all her neighbours.