“WE DON’T WANT WAR”

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20915, 21 September 1939, Page 5

“WE DON’T WANT WAR”

GERMAN PEOPLE’S CLAIMS NO QUARREL WITH ENGLAND “We don’t want war, and we don’t want to fight England, but what our Feuhrer says we must do, we do.” This, claims an English visitor to Berlin writing to a friend in Hamilton, was the attitude of the German people before the outbreak of war. Although war preparations must, have been going on in the country shortly before hostilities commenced, the visitor said io saw no signs of trenches about the cities. The authorities claimed, he believed, that no aeroplanes could cross the German border, so heavily was it guarded. The description the writer gives of ihe country implies that the Germans were a peaceful and contented people. Nobody was short of food or money, is far as could be seen, but there ippeared to be a lack of coffee and •utter. The houses wera surrounded with, beautiful flower gardens and the streets were spotlessly clean. Hitler had built railways, gun emplacements, stores and officers’ quarters undpr his famous , automobile road. Oji top was a four-way track for hundreds of miles, which allowed oars to speed up to 100 miles an hour.