"Since our accession to power—the Fuehrer stated—a unified front has opposed us and just as the capitalist democracies have allied themselves with Communism internally so we today perceive the same conspiracy between democracy and Marxism against the National Socialist state. Our reactions are the same today when we realize that the so-called world democracies, which have always advocated liberty, fraternity, justice and the right of self-determination of peoples, have jaligned themselves with Bolshevisr, Asking the question why National Socialism was compelled to draw the democracies into the circle of its Closest consideration, the Fuehrer answered his own question by declaring "Because we are forced to regard ourselves as the victims of an attack. Secondly because their very attitude arouses your intense st indignation Hypocrisy begins at the moment when democracies designate themselves as the governments of the people and denounce authoritarian states as dictatorships. I believe I may safely say that only two governments in the world today enjoy the support of 99 per cent. of their people. How false and hypocritical On fbe other hand the internal character of those who declare themselves to be democracies can be clearly seen in the attitude they assume towards the rest of the world when compelled. by necessity We noted that governments by brute force were actually praised when this suited the aim of the democracies and that they declared themselves willing even to fight for such regimes if necessary, while on the other hand great demonstrations of confidence in those states which are not democracies were ignored or misinterpreted. These democracies even glorify Bolshevism although it terms itself the dictatorship of the proletariat. In other words, the democracies dare band countries whose governments are supported, by 99 per cent. of their people' as dictatorships and other nations whose governments declare themselves to be dictators London Crossword on Page 10 and are able to exist only by force of mass murder, executions, persecution etc. are admired as highly hon-Otrable democratic institutions. It i" a grim mockery in world history that the representative of the most ghastly -tyranny of all times, Lo. Bolshevism, is an honourable mem. ber in the company of the democracy ies. They speak of equality of rights and at the same time attempt to deprive a nation of 75 millions of even the most primitive rights of man. These were denied even before Germany was ruled by the National Socialists and was under democratic and Marxist control. For 15 years they opposed the most natural of human rights, composed dictates, compelled and suppressed us politically and then afterwards denounced with hypocritical indignation our "one-sided violation of sacred pledges and the breaking of still more sacred treaties." Without ever troubling themselves to consider the opinion of the native populations, they have subjected' continents by the employment of sanguinary force, buf when Germany demands the return of her colonies they declared with sudden anxiety that it would be impossible under any circumstances io deliver the native populations over to a fate of this sort. Yet at the same time no compunction was shown in employing aeroplanes to bring to teáson natives in their own colonies who did not wish to tolerate alien rule. These, added the Fuehrer with sarcasm, are purely civilised forms in contrast to the brutality used by Italy in Abyssinia Unbearable Attitude of Democracies After a renewed reference to the Jewish influence, Hitler then remarked that all these big democracies, taken as a whole, have only a couple of inhabitants to the square kilometre, whereas Italy and Germany have over 140 and for this reason alone they had no room for Jews.
"Today we are being abused, but we are in a position to prevent any exploitation and rape of Germany. The state which preceded us was subjected to blackmail for 15 years but for that it receives from me the somewhat meagre compensation of praise of being a kind and democratic state. The attitude of the democracies, however, becomes for us unbearable when these let loose a flood of democratic phrases in the form of a threat against our people at a moment when a large and seemingly defenceless section of our people is being suppressed and maltreated."
"I speak of Czechoslovakia. That WEDNESDAY,
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