MISLEAD FIRST
NAZI IDEA OF DIPLOMACY. “Hitler's first diplomatic maxim is to mislead,” said Captain A. L. Kennedy in a lecture on Nazi diplomacy. “That is, if you come to think of it, a war-time instinct. When war is being waged, it is the business of a general to mislead his enemy, to befog and confuse him, to keep him guessing. The German mind is much more military than diplomatic. Bismarck himself said that Prussians could never be good diplomats; and the mentality of Hitler, though he is not a Prussian, is essentially military. Just as he planned from the first an economic system which was designed to serve the country best in time of war, so his diplomatic values have been the values of war time; for instance, surprise. Lull his opponent and then deal him a sudden blow. And he always thinks in terms of force. The rest of us meant what we said when we signed the Kellogg Pact in 1928 and ‘outlawed war.’ We did mean that war should not be used as an instrument of policy. Hitler always thought of war as an instrument of policy, which gave him rather an obvious advantage in peace time.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1941, Page 5
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