The Archive · 1937

Germany to Avoid War If Possible

Germans Abroad Asked To Be Proud Of New Warships Stuttgart, Sept. 2.

"We want peace, but if others do $40.82) not want it we must, be. fully.prepared for war," declared Col.-Gen. $16.0956 Hermann Goering, chief of the Ger-'$83.084 man air force, in an address before a crowd of 20,000 persons to-day at the Sixth Congress of Germans living_abroad.

"You must be proud," he said, when our new warships come to} visit you. The time is not far. distant when I shall send my squadrons to you."

"Foreign journalists here," Gen. Goering added, "will now say that the war god has raged and thundered again. So I would like to say that no nation knows. war as well as

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