Referring to the question of war guilt, the German Foreign Minister seid that among public opinion in the whole world there was not the Islightest doubt that the French people did not want this war, and would rether have peace today than tomorrow, and that the war had been imposed on them by Britain by negotiations in Paris and with the French Government.
He could prove beyond all doubt, he added, that this war against Ger-narly had been systematically and secretly prepared for years by the present British Government. Mr. Chamberlain, he asserted, did not come to Munich in order to prevent war, but to postpone the war, on which the British Government had decided.
The British assertion that Germany aimed at world domination, Herr von Ribbentrop continued, was ridiculous end impudent. Britain's foreign policy, he said, was unscrupulous.
"By slahdering Herr Hitler" he declared, "the British want to alienate the German people from their leader. The German people will not tolerate sny impudent insinuations."
Munich Accord "Breach"
By declaring war on Germany, the Foreign Minister stated, Mr. Chamber-isin had broken his agreement with Herr Hitler that Britain and Germany would never go to war against each other. Misguided by his policy, he alleged, Mr. Chamberlain took it as a sign of weakness.
Herr von Ribbentrop conclud: "We shall never make peace until there are guarantees that such an attack against the German people is, once and for all excluded. Fully conscious that right is on our side, and that up to the very last moment we did our best to avoid this war, which has been forced on us, we shall see this struggle through with all our energy and strength, and at the end there can not but be a great German victory.
"This is pledged by the power of cur nation and our faith in the man is the greatest—our
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