The Archive · 1939

Priests, Cavalry, and Troops

The entourage, with its precious burden, passed Yulin, in north-east Shensi, on June 15. They entered the city through the North Gate and went straight through the South Gate ithout stopping. The entire city was decorated with flags. Troops, students, merchants and Government officials lined the streets in honour of the accession.

Chinese cavalry detachments, commanded by General Chen Vu-shen, headed the procession. They were followed by bands of Mongol prias Mongol Cavalry guards came next. One of these held the sword of Genghis Khan and was followed by the remains of the illustrious leader and those of his wife.

Danzig, June 18.

The blunt announcement that Germany will take Danzig was made here last night in an unexpected speech made by the Gernfàn Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Dr, Joseph Goebbels, The brief address, delivered outside a theatre which Dr. Goebbels had attended during the Nazi rally here, assured German Nazis in Danzig that they soon would be reunited with their homeland.

Dr. Goebbels promised them that Germany would support "your unquenchable yearning to return to the Reich."

"We in the Reich," he said, this the same as you do.

Fuehrer, in his Reichstag speech, expressed this in unmistakeable terms when he said Danzig is a German city and wants to return home to Germany:

"The world must have understood that, and it also knows from past experience that Der Fuehrer does not speak empty words.

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