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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20914, 20 September 1939, Page 6

STOP PRESS NEWS

GERM AN-RUSS lAN AIMS BOLSHEVIKS AND NAZIS DANZIG, Sept. 20 Continuing his speech Herr Hitler said: “Germany’s political aims are limited. We will reach an understanding with Russia, as she is our nearest neighbour. Such an agreement should set at rest England’s fears of unlimited German expansion. Germany and Russia guarantee that Poland will never again rise in the form that the Versailles Treaty laid "The Democracies will find out for themselves that the ultimate aim of the German-Russian understanding is that Russia remains Bolshevik and Germany Nazi. Let no one think that they will quarrel. Germany does not intend to annex the Ukraine. “Britain has already started 'the war against women and children. Let no one remind us of humamtariamsm or the fact that war should not be waged against women and children. It is Britain’s business to see that the blockade is carried out humanely. Our ways of fighting will depend on that." escape of submarine NAVY CHIEFS DISMISSED LONDON, Sept. 19 The Riga correspondent of the Times states that Estonia has dismissed the head of the navy and the Chief of the naval staff, in consequence of the escape of the Polish submarine. " INDICTMENT OF HITLER NO CONFIDENCE IN WORD LONDON, Sept. 19 Only a year ago at a sports rally in September, 1938, there was no word of maltreatment in Herr Hitler’s speech regarding Poland. “We realise that there are two nations which must live side by side and neither of which is in a position to eliminate the other,” he said. "A State with 33,000,000 inhabitants will always strive to have an outlet to the sea. It is therefore necessary to find a way to an understanding. This has been found and it will be consolidated. This was really a peaceful action which was worth more than the whole of the babbling at the palace of the League of Nations at Geneva.” So said Hitler, as long as a victim had to be lulled into false security and the world deceived. Hitler also affected surprise at the unwillingness of Polish statesmen to walk into a trap which they had seen baited too often. Referring to the proposals which he made in the spring to the Polish Government, Hitler declared: “I don’t know in what state of mind the Polish Government could have been to reject such proposals.” It is not so difficult to enlighten Hitler’s perplexity, because the answer is that the Polish Government had before their eyes the shameful betrayal of solemn assurances given by the German Chancellor at Munich. They knew that these demands were only the preliminary to further exactions. If Hitler had wished to inspire confidence in his word he should have been less reckless with his earlier promises. “Germany has no further territorial ambitions in Europe,” was an undertaking which has been broken too flagrantly and too often. Just as the Polish Government, which had done its best for sixty years to reach and maintain an understanding with Nazi Germany on the basis of good faith, was faced at the last with the realisation that it had no choice but to capitulate or flght so neither Great Britain nor .France nor any other country is to be deceived by the fresh assurance • or fresh promises or fresh renunciations which the foresworn Nazi Chancellor may make.