NAZI BLOW-UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1943, Page 4

NAZI BLOW-UP

“FROM THE TOP DOWN” PREDICTED BY MAYOR OF NEW YORK $ CHOICE BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF ITALY A prediction that a blow-up" from the top down will come in Germany in the near future was voiced by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in his address in New York reported recently in the “Christian Science Monitor." “I think that a blow-up will come in Germany from the top.” Mr La Guardia said. "It won't be long before the general staff will fight among themselves. Somebody will shoot somebody else. It makes no difference who. None of y them are any good anyhow, but that will start something.” “Italy, to all intents and purposes, is out of the war, "except that it is to Germany's advantage to keep Italy going and, if possible, to have Italy as the battlefield instead of farther north on the continent,” the Mayor declared. He saw the Germans as fighting to hold the air bases and industrial regions in the North of Italy. “For the first, time in 20 years the Italian people have spoken,” he continued. “They have spoken for. peace and want peace. Now the responsibility rests with the present Italian ment. Either they must- side with USMf United Nations or fight with Germany and take the consequences. “After it is over in Europe, we still have a job to do in the Pacific. One thing we must guard against is that we do not go sentimental and find time to sit at a peace conference. I will fight to the very last to prevent the Government sitting at a peace conference with Japan at any time. They have disqualified themselves and the thing to do is to talk to them in the only language they understand—the language of brute force. We must crush them so that we will have no trouble in the Pacific for the next, 500 or 600 years.” \ At several points in his ad'dress, the Mayor appealed for a “real united front” behind the Commander in Chief and the fighting forces. He told of receiving letters from soldiers voicing anxiety over differences of the home front. There must be no let up or interruption of production, he declared, adding that anyone who leaves his bench, goes on strike, is “doublecrossing American boys at the front.” Mr La Guardia held that all organisations *iust contribute their part in “clear and unselfish thinking” about post-war problems. "There should be more organised planning so that we will know exactly what we are going to do when this vast army comes home, when industries stop producing war material,” he continued.