The official explanation here of the decision not to relay Herr Hitler's speech yesterday over the radio is that the "time of day is not likely to raw a large audience of listeners, and it was therefore decided to make records of the speech, and play them lover at an hour when most people are It is insisted that the sudden break-hug off of the shortwave relay to the United States was "due technical fault or mistake." crucially suggested, however, Herr Hitler, having prepared a speech en more general lines, containing remark of special American interest, Ire-drafted his speech after the statement made by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and concentrated on Britain.
As little of special American interest hen remained in the speech, it is pointed out, it was decided at the last moment not to broadcast the speech to erica. Through some technical The official version of the speech Iwas not released until Herr Hitler, who spoke from notes, had had the lcpportunity to study carefully, aboard he Strength Through Joy liner Robert Ley, what it looked like in writing.
Nobody noticed any serious discrepancies between the written version, and that broadcast on gramophone records.—Reuter.
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