Evening star., 1938-09-27
Text Of Killers Speech on Czechs
~ the Associated Prsss.

~ the Associated Pfsss.
BERLIN. Sept. 27.-The text Of
Reichsfuehrer Fntler's address last
night ON the international situation
follows: ,
On February "a I made before tho
Reichstag deputies . fundamental
demand concerning which there
could be no bargaining.
The nation heard 1t and under.
stood what meant.
One statesman (meaning former
Chancellor Kurt Schusnigg Of the
then independent Austria) failed to
understandable has been removed,
and my promise Of that time has
been fulfilled.
For the second time. I spoke on
this same demand before the
Reich's party convention In Nurn-
berg and again the nation heard.
Today I once more stand before
you speaking to the people itself as
in the days Of our struggles and you
know what that means.
Today there must remain no
vestige Of doubt In the world-to-
day it Is not . Fuehrer or 4 man
who speaks, but the whole German
people.
And II I am now spokesman Of
this German people, know at this
hour that all the listening millions
Of this people are at one, that they
indorse these words and make
them their own testimony.
Germany-another proposals
ready If others do likewise to re-
nounce heavy armament, the So
called aggressive weapons, namely,
tanks, bombers, heavy and super
heavy artillery.
It was rejected.
300,000-Man Army.
now proposed an international
regulation with q 800, ,000-man
army, the same to apply to all
European countries.
Again this was rejected.
I then offered further sugges-
tions: At least, the elimination Of
air fleets, elimination Of bomb
throwing, absolute outlaw1ng Of
poison gas in war, the safeguarding
Of the homeland and Of lands not
lying In the line Of attack, the
elimination at least Of the heaviest
artillery and elimination Of the
heaviest tanks.
That, too, was declined. 1t was
all in vain.
After I had thus for two years
made offer after offer and received
nothing but rejection after rejec-
ton, now issued command to
put the German defense force in
the best position that could pos
sibly be achieved by us.
can now admit that openly.
We have now, to be sure, COM
pleted q rearmament the like Of
which the world has not seen.
First, I offered disarmament as
long as that was possible.
After it was rejected certainly
made no more halfway decisions.
In that I am national-socialist
(Naz) and an old front fighter.
Question Well Known.
Let other statesmen search
themselves and see if 1t is the same
with them.
The question which has been
agitating us most deeply for the
past months and weeks is well
known to them.
Its name is not SO much Czecho-
slovaNa; its name Is rather Herr
Benes (Eduard Benes, President Of
Czechoslovakia>.
This name unites all that is
agitating millions today, what
either drives them to despair or
fills them with fanatic determine
ton.
How came this question to reach
such importance?
I will here briefly repeat, as
have done before, the essence and
purposes of Germany's foreign
policy.
German foreign policy, as dis
tinct from chat of many demo-
cratic states, is fixed in our philos-
ophy of life.
This philosophy Of our people of
the new Third Reich is based on
the maintenance and safeguarding
of the existence Of our German
people.
We are not interested IN oppress-
ing other peoples.
Not Random Aims.
We do not wish at all to have
other nationalities among us. We
want to live after our own pat
terms and let others live after
theirs.
This, In a manner our philosophy
II may well say racially bound
conception leads to limitation Of
our foreign policy; that il, our
foreign political aims are not limit
less or random ones nor are they
aims determined by occasional
happenings.
They are laid down by determina-
ton to serve the German people
alone, to maintain it In this world
and to preserve its existence.
What is the situation today?
You know that at one time the
German people, too, was imbued,
under the slogan "self-determina-
ton Of peoples" with belief IN
supernatural assistance and that
it thereby renounced utilizing It's
own strength to the very end. ,
You know that this weak Ger
man trust Of those days was shame
fully betrayed.
You know the result was tho
Versailles treaty, and you all re-
member what frightful conse-
quenoes this treaty had.
Mistreated People.
You remember how our people
were robbed Of their weapons and
how the unarmed people were later
mistreated.
You know the terrible fate that
befell us, that prosecuted us for q