Caled "War Monger"; Plane Sales "Treason"
Berlin, Feb. 1. The Nazi Government-controlled press struck its first blow in Chancellor Adolf Hitler's announced campaign to "answer Democratic critics" tonight by bluntly calling President Roosevelt a "war monger" and accusing him of "fomenting war in Europe for the benefit of Jewish bankers."
The Nazi press attack, led by the "Nachtausgabe," was considered a reply to dispatches from the United States reporting that President Roosevelt had told the Senate Military Committee in o secret meeting yesterday that the United States must pre-pere to aid Britain and France in any war against the totalitarian chtausgabe" said these reade it clear that the s had broken her neu-policy. "The world has now to decide whether it is to be for peace 2 paper said.
e only happy," the paper hat President Roosevelt was y this aid to France as being not only a war monger, but also as conducting war preparations for the benefit of Jewish bankers and speculators, the real dictators in the United States."
U.S. Frontier on Rhine The paper's New York correspondent, Herr Ernest Halfeld, reported that Mr. Roosevelt had told his military advisers that in the future the United States frontier would be the Rhine.
The correspondent quoted the "New York Herald Tribune" as saying the United States must be prepared to give Britain and France every assistance in case of a European war.
"President Roosevelt has allowed it to be seen that a definite understanding and a positive tie exists between the United States and the European Democracies," the correspondent commented.
"Yesterday's Senate Military Affairs Committee meeting with the President," the "Nachtausgabe" editors added, "has thus attained fundamental importance for Germany and friendly totalitarian nations. Washington, since yesterday, is the official centre of war mongering agitation against the totalitarian states."
The paper said President Roosevelt's remarks to the Senate Committee were prompted by the disclosure that through the sale of United States planes to France, "the French obtained an insight into military secrets of the United States aeroplane industry which many military authorities in the United States don't even know."—
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