Paris, Oct. 7.
The press here this morning gave Herr Hitler's speech a cool and sar-castle reception, and sees in it ample evidence of the Fuehrer's confusion.
Mme. Genevieve Tabouis put it in "L'Guvre" that "the embarrassed tone of Hitler's words is well in keeping indeed with his present quandary. He did not dare put forward any definitive proposals as he knew they would be rejected. He did not dare to refrain from alluding to such proposals as he had undertaken to do so to his people. He did not dare openly to threaten the democracies as he has no more allies. Obviously, Stalin did not allow him to make the slightest reference to the possibilities of a military alliance with the Soviets as no such possibilities exist."
Taking up the Fuehrer's suggestion for an international conference, Per-tina writes in "L'Ordre" that, "Such a conference, Hitler said, should be prepared carefully. Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Halifax and M. Daladier have already told him how it should be prepared: by the eradication of Hitlerism. AN they will have to do in order to fuly answer Hitler's speech will be to repeat these conditions."
"L'Ere Nouvelle" is delightfully cynical in saying that "he isn't concerned with interzaional opinion and that only the opinion of the German people matters to him. In fact the opinion of the German people is the only opinion not allowed to express itself."
The opinion of Leon Baill in the "Jour Echo de Pari "the first part of the speech is abject. It would alone have dishonoured the man who made it, had he any honour left to lose."—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.