TREMENDOUS TASKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1942, Page 3

TREMENDOUS TASKS

PERCEIVED BY HITLER MESSAGE TO REICH. WILD ABUSE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. LONDON, December 31. Hitler, in a New Year message to the Reich, states: “When Churchill in July and August, 1940, rejected my peace offers, the decisive factor was not so much the promised deliveries of American war goods as assurances of a Soviet entry into the war.” Hitler described President Roosevelt as the greatest warmonger of all time, who was not seeking a new kind of world, but better business, hoping thereby to silence the criticism of the economic debacle to which he had brought the American people. Referring to the attack on Russia, he said: “I would rather have chosen peace than war. Peace meant an abundance of happy tasks for me, and I regret this war not only because of the sacrifices and the cost to Germany and other nations, but also for the time taken from those planning social and civilising works. “Japan, tired of the eternal American extortions and threats, is now acting in self-defence. Tremendous tasks are before us, but we will fulfil them. We only pray that God will grant the German people and soldiei’s the strength to support all the necessary efforts to safeguard their liberty and future.”