Berlin, Feb. 20.
An announcement that Germany would recognize Manchoukwo was made by Herr Hitler in his eagerly Jawaited speech at the opening of the Reichstag at the Krell Opera House The Fuehrer also announced that Germany would never return to the League of Nations, and that she was oppated to any expansion of Belshevism. fear," he asserted, "that a Japan-ere defeat would not' aid Europe or the United States, but only Soviet, Russia. I do not consider that Chin: strong enough mentally to resist "The greatest Japanese victory, the Fuehrer said, would, "in my opinion, be less' dangerous than 3 Bolshevist victory. We believe that we are really mutual observers of the Far Eastern conflict.
"Peace would already have been' ¢slablished in the Fur East i€ certain forces had not supported Japan's opponents just as in the case of Abys-sinza, It would have been better to have drawn China's attention to the seriousness of the situation '"f shall always regard Japan as an element of security in regard to the culture of humanity. A Bolshevist victory would have destroyed European culture."
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