VENEMOUS DIATRIBE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 6

VENEMOUS DIATRIBE

RIBBENTROP ON WAR OUTLOOK ATTACK ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. BRITAIN’S OUTLOOK SAID TO BE GLOOMY. a (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, November 26. The Nazi Foreign Minister (von Ribbentrop) addressing the signatories to the anti-Comintern Pact at Berlin, bitterly attacked President Roosevelt as the person mainly responsible for the war. Ribbentrop claimed that Britain would be the chief sufferer from the war, because, even with United States help, she could not equal the strength of Germany and her allies. Britain’s prospects were more than gloomy. After the certain defeat of Russia, the economic and armaments potential of the Axis Powers, even without Japan, would be infinitely greater ..than that of England and America combined. Europe would then be able to participate in a thirty years war without endangering its existence'. When the main fighting services of Germany and her allies were employed against the British Isles, Britain would be laid waste. Sooner or later, Britain must be defeated. Ribbentrop denied that Germany was contemplating new peace offers and also denied the possibility revolution in Germany.