Berlin, Mar. 1
"Germany's air force is not merely a force for peace-time parades, but a very sharp weapon of war," declared Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Minister of Aviation, Prussian Premier and Director of the Four-Year Plan, in an address to-day before representatives of Germany's armed forces on the occasion of the third anniversary of the official founding of the Air Force.
Alluding to Herr Hitler's statement in his Reichstag speech that Germany could not tolerate ill-treatment of the 10,000,000 Germans living beyond the frontiers, Marshal Goering said: "You must be ready to sacrifice all for this idea if the day should come."
Prior to the speech, Herr Hitler presented the baton of a Field Marshal to Herr Goering.—Reuter.
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