"Our relations with Japan likewise are founded upon the knowledge and decision to call a halt to the threatening Bolshevization of the world, which has become blind.
"Germany has no territorial demands to make on England or France except the restoration of our colonies. If there is tension today in Europe; this must be attributed to the machinations of the conscienceless foreign press.
believe that if the Jewish interional campaign of hatred by press d radio could be checked, good understanding would very quickly be established between other peoples. I have stated over and over again that no German, even in his most secret thoughts, has sny intention of causing the British Empire any kind of difficulties.
"If the rest of the world is inclined te draw the conclusion that Germany, under military pressure, has menaced others, it is a gross distortion of the facts. Germany has, in territory where neither the British nor any other western nation has any business, established—self-determination for 16,000,000 German continentals. It has threatened no one by doing so—t has only defended itself against the attempts of mierfering third parties and I need not assure you that in the future also we shall tolerate no attempts at interference in matters concerning us alone with the purpose of preventing natural and sensible solutions."
Chancellor Hitler, whose voice developed a noticeable cough in the course of two hours speech, hurled back the charge that world trade is retrogressing because of German methods for the mutual exchange of goods—the barter system.
"The compulsion under which Germany's economic policy stands now, Herr Hitler said, "is so great that no threat of capitalistic measures can keep us from this activity, for the necessity does not arise from capitalistic greed for gain, but simply from the exigencies forced upon us through the fault of others and for no urgent cause.
"If ever dire need made a people see, it has done so in the case of the German people. Under the pressure of this dire need, we learned above all things to reckon with the most essential cap; tal of a nation, namely its labour power. In the face of industry and the ability of a national labour power planfully invested, all gold and foreign exchange hoards pale into insignificance.
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