Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-13
Official Germany
B|ames Democracies
For War Approach
Cites Failure TO Heed
HitIer's Peuce Pleas
And Warnings
BY LOUIS P.LOCHNER,

BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, April 13.-Official Ger
many took the position today that
If the world should be plunged into
war the fault would lie with
the democracies--for not needing
Reichsfuehrer Hitltr's pleas" for
peace and his warnings against in
ternational r-mongers"
The United States was presented
as an example of a nation which
fosters the war psychosis.''
Commenting on the decision of
American insurance companies to
cancel war-risk insurance for Ger
man and Italian ships, government
spokesman said:
IF people is being urged into
war the way the American people
are, nobody need be surprised if bust
ness gets jittery. This is typical
example of panic politics.
Condemns War Reporting.
six to eight times a day news
Is given out in the U. S. A. of the
kind that only can be called war
correspondents reporting. We con-
denim all that sort of reporting.
Germany is doing nothing but
pleading for peace. Our Fuehrer
himself has decided to call the Sep
TENDER party rally at Nurnberg the
party convention of peace"
These views were expressed as
Germany's newspaper war, increas-
ingly centered on Britain to counter
act infamous suspicious" of Ger
many's plans, assumed an unprece-
denied vehemence and as new de-
mands were raised for colonial ter
ritory.
Fear Peoples Incited.
Official circles showed keen ap-
prehension over the possibility that
peoples of the Western democracies
already had been 'incited" to the
point where they were more radical
in their demands" for war than
their governments. This was re-
ferred to as "overheating of the peo-
pies minds"
Meanwhile the Berlin newspaper
Zw1lf Uhrblatt capped morning
newspapers in their denunciation of
Britain. The upper half of its front
page was taken up with the follow
ing streamers. some in black and
some in red ink:
desperate Cries for Help by
Arabs-Last Warning-Morality or
immortality in Europe, That Now Is
the Question-It Stinks to Heaven
Beers, Indians, Irish, Arabs: Always
the Same Observation-Disclosures In
citation by London
Article Attacks Britain.
1t. Gen. Won Metzsch. writing in
Deutsches Adelsblatt, organ Of the
German nobility, charged Britain
was trying to create conditions
which would insure victory to Brit
ish arms with the aid of foreign
nations.
Under England's leadership the
democratic world is pursuing the
purely negative aim of throttling
German dynamics. he wrote.
The general asserted that White
hall would like very much to kick
out French Foreign Minister
Georges Bonnet because, as the gen.
eral said, he favors an understand
Ing with the axis powers, Germany
and Italy.
Despite these British efforts, he
declared, the Italians and French
are in secret contact with each
other.
Arab Oppression Charged.
Following yesterdays allegations
Of British oppression on the Medi-
terranean Islands of Cyprus and
Malta, morning editions singled out
Palestine as third strategic center
OF the British Empire, and charged
oppression of the Arabs there.
'Englands blood guilt was the
caption chosen by Deutsche Dienst,
a special commentary service of the
official German news agency.
All the morning editions proml-
nently displayed such headlines as
"Agitating Arab Cries for Help
Against British Terror" based upon
purported messages of protest from
the Arab town of LYDIA, Palestine,
which were carried by Deutsche
Dienst.
The commentary found British
military action at LYDIA to be IAN
example OF British cruelty and de-
clared, robbery, cruelty and blood
are the building stones Of the Brit
ish Empire
Colonial Plea Renewed.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler's Ham
burg edition of the Voelkischer Beo-
bachter declared peaceful develop
ment in the world would be assured
II political and colonizing oppor-
tunities were open to any people &C.
cording to its abilities and its ma
tional strength"
Calling attention to Germanys
10000, 900 population, the paper said
National Socialist Germany needed
territory in proportion to that OF
smaller countries.
"Forty-seven million Englishmen
rule over territory 140 times as large
as their home state" said the paper.
Forty million Frenchmen rule over
q territory which is 81 times as big
as France. Eight million Dutch pos
sess 60-fold of their homeland.
Eight million Belgians 8o-fold of
their state"