GERMANY’S PLAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 8

GERMANY’S PLAN

WHAT SUCCESS WOULD ENTAIL FOR BRITAIN.

“In Germany there is a paper called ‘Volkischer Beobachter,’ which is owned by the unspeakable Goebbels,” said Mr W. J. Brown in answering the statement that we would be “as well off under Hitler.” "This is what appeared in this paper in March of this year: ‘Germany is now prepared to cause the final defeat of England, and is determined to have a formidable Day of Judgment not only on Churchill and his followers, but on the British nation. We will bring England a revolution of blood and tears which as a punishment will reduce the British population to degradation and poverty.’ There it is for everybody, plain as a pikestaff. You will see indeed from the facts and figures I have given you that defeat would indeed reduce us to degradation and poverty. And what the amiable Goebbels and the rest of Hitler’s gang would like to see is Englishmen murdering each other for survival in a land reduced to this condition. I want to say of that just this: however long the struggle may be and however the fortunes of war may sway from day to day, it will be the privilege and the joy of the British and the American people to see that these anticipations shall be well and truly disappointed, and that the wicked pride and presumption which devised them, and which launched war on the world to realise them, shall meet the retribution which they so richly deserve."