May 13. The convenience with which the Nazis find documents in occupied countries to prove anything they wish is astonishing. After their occupation of Holland, Belgium and Norway they, claimed to have discovered documentary proof of their invention that Britain and France had been planning invade the Reich from those countries. The truth is, of course, well known: that those countries were so anxious to preserve their neutrality that they refused all discussions with the British and French General Staffs, to what was eventually their own detriment. 'The only incriminating papers the Nazis could have found were those written probably in Goebbels' own office, which, when they come to be examined at the end of this war, will prove to be the most clumsy. forgeries. These remarks are inspired by the news published in the "Voelkischer Beobachter," a Nazi journal in which Hitler still retains considerable stock, that papers were discovered in Poland which prove that, in the journal's own words: "Not even Mr. Churchill bears so much guilt (for the war) as this North American president and his circle. We know from documents found in Poland what kind of pressure President. Roosevelt's confidant, Mr. Bullitt, brought to bear on the hesitant Mr. Chamberlain, particularly after Munich, to force him into a Policy of encirclement, It was President Roosevelt, with his promise of help to Britain, who lit the conflagration. Without him, Mr. Churchill would never have entered the British Cabinet Im connection with this interesting announcement it is worth while recapitulating the order of events which led up to the: outbreak of war. Hitler had first swallowed Austria, and had opened his campaign vilification against Czechoslovakia. Munich had followed, with the loss to the Czechs of the Sudetenland. Then came: the swallowing of Czechoslovakia itself, in direct viola~ tion of Hitler's Munich pledges. Then came! Memel. And the Nazis turned towards Poland and, after their recognizable storm of abuse and unfounded charges, invaded that country, -well knowing that its integri was guaranteed by Britain and France. Dun ing the period these things were happening. numerous attempts to preserve peace were
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