American inter-continental unity is row more nearly a fact than at any time in histoi a result of the Pan-American conference at Havana t month, President Roosevelt told Swedish Paper: German Military Surprise Seen the press here yesterday.
The Ha ma Conference was ex-Stockholm, Aug. 7. traordinary on account of three major HE tremendous propaganda campaign of an imminent German *ccomplishments, he said. invasion of Britain has suddenly become silent, and this sug-The "meeting of the minds" of the 21 nations on the defence of the gests that the object of the campaign was to compel the British New World against any non-Ameri-to maintain strong forces at home Force in France, points out the "But suddenly, after the conclusion of the French campaign, the prgpaganda recommenced, and military Circles in Berlin provided foreign journalists with detailed descriptions of the planned invasion. The jour-rialists themselves could scarcely con-coal their surprise at such frankness, but they interpreted it as an indic. tion of German confidence in victory, when they related beforehand all the details of the invasion.
"On July 19, there was another. sudden change—Hitler offered to retrain from invading Britain. It was a peace offer under the fearful threat of invasion. Britain was to withdraw from Europe or be totally destroyed.
"When Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary) refused the offer it was still hoped that Mr. Churchill (the Prime Minister) would be more conciliatory, but when it was clear that hopes of peace were in vain, then Berlin and Rome announced that an and so weaken the Expeditionary newspaper "Dagens Nyheter." invasion was not being conteniplated, and instead Britain was to be defeated by a war of exhaustion—these arp the same tactics which Hitler declared did not win a single honourable victory in the last war.
"Was the first campaign of invasion merely tactical, and the second one merely meant to intimidate the English?" the paper asks.
"The decision to undertake a blockade war will surprise the Italians more, perhaps, than the patient German people, but it will also cause the llitary a certain amount of "Before the outbreak of war, one of Germany's leading military "writers criticized the Schlieffen plan on ihe. ground thet it inevitably drew Britain into the war, and therefore caused a long war, which Germany could not win. Does this opinion still hold?" the paper asks.—Reuter, can power, 2. The agreement on a cooperalive approach to mutual economic problems of North America, Central America and South America.
3. The understanding regarding measures to combat fifth column activities, which the President said obviously originate outside the Western Hemisphere—United Press.
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