TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Hitler s Ambition “It is Herr Hitler’s ambition to live in history as a bloodless conqueror. He would rather win by statecraft than by war,” wrote Mr G. Ward Price before the outbreak of war. “He has no desire to share the glory, even of a German victory, with his own generals. The danger to world-peace lies in the possibility that the relentless pursuit of his aims by political pressure may some day encounter resistance on the part of one of the States which are its objectives. It was significant that, in replying to President Roosevelt’s inquiry as to whether he would declare that he had no intention of attacking certain countries, Herr Hitler announced his readiness to give such a pledge subject to the condition that the nations in question approached him individually ‘with appropriate proposals.’ In a speech otherwise unmistakably clear this was the one vague passage. Such ‘appropriate proposals’ would doubtless include acceptance of economic subordination to Germany, together with the undertaking to follow a foreign policy adapted to her interests.”