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longer morally justified to carry out
such procedure.
America First Refused
To Ratify the Treaty.
After America had been first to
refuse to ratify the treaty of Ver-
sailles, or to join the League of
Nations, and later when other
countries also felt they could no
longer reconcile their presence in
this organization with the interests
of their respective countries, the
League degenerated more and more
into a clique of parties interested in
the Versailles dictate.
At any rate, it is fact that none
OF the revisionS recognized from the
outset as necessary had ever been
effected by the League of Nations
Since in our time it became custo-
mary to regard a refugee govern
ment as still existing even if it con-
sists of three members, providing
they have taken with them sufh-
cient gold so as not to be an eco
nomic burden to the democratic
country offering hospitality, it may
be assumed that the League of Ma
tions too will carry on bravely If
but two nations sit there together.
Perhaps even one will do!
But according to the government
Of the league any revision Of the
Versailles clauses would still be ad-
Indicated exclusively by this illus
trious organizatien-that is, in other
words, revision would be practically
impossible.
League of Nations Is
Already a Dead Thing.
The League of Nations is not a
living but already dead thing: 3:
nevertheless the peoples concerned
are not dead but alive and they
will uphold their vital interests how
ever incapable the League of Ma
tions may be of seeing, grasping or
respecting those interests.
National Socialism is not a phe-
nomenon which has grown up in
Germany with the malicious intent
OF thwarting league efforts at re-
vision. but movement which arose
because for Is years the most
natural human ana social rights of
great nation had been suppressed
and denied redress.
And I personally take exception
at seeing foreign statesmen stand
up and call me guilty of having
broken my word because I have now
put these revisions through.
On the contrary, I pledged my
sacred word to the German people
to do away with the treaty of Yer
sailles and to restore to them theil
natural and vital rights as a grea,
nation.
The extent to which am securing
these vital rights is modest.
This I ask: If 100000 English
men claim the right to rule over
100000 square kilometers of the
earth, it cannot be wrong fol
100000 Germans to demand the
right to live on 100000 square kilo'
meters, to till their fields and to fol.
low their trades and callings.
And if they further demand thu
restitution of those colonial posses.
sions which formerly were theil
property, which they had not taker
away from anybody by robbery o.
war, but honestly acquired by pur'
chase, exchange and treaties. More.
over, in al my demands I alway,
first tried to obtain revision by way
of negotiation.
1 did, it is true, refuse to submit
the question of German vital rights
to some non-competent interna.
tional body in the form of humble
requests. Just as little as I suppose
that Great Britain would plead fol
respect of her vital interests, so lit.
tie ought one to expect the same o1
National Socialist Germany. I have
however, and I must emphasize thi!
fact, most solemnly limited in the
extreme the measure of these re.
visions of the Versailles treaty.
10000, 900 People
Must Live Somewhere.
Notably in all those cases where
did not see any menace to the natu.
raj, vital interests of my people,
have myself advised the German
nation to hold back Yet these 80,'
100000 people must live somewhere
There exists fact that not even tn,
Versailles treaty has been able t.
destroy. Although it has in the mos
unreasonable manner dissolved
states, torn asunder regions eco
nomically connected, cut commune
cation lines, etc, yet the people, tn,
living substance of flesh and blood
has remained and will forever re.
main in the future.
1t cannot be denied that since
the German people has found it
resurrection through National So
cialism, the relation existing be-
tween Germany and the surround
ing nations has been cleared up to {
great extent.
The uncertainty that today i
weighing down the common life O
nations is not due to German de-
mands, but to the malignant in
situations published in the So
called democracies.
The German demands themselves
were formulated in a very clear ane
precise way. They have, it is true
found their fulfillment, not thank
to the insight of the League of Ma
tions, but thanks to the dynamic
Of natural development.
The aim of the German foreign
policy as pursued by me has nevel
been other than to guarantee tn
existence-that is to say, the life-o
the German people. to remove tn
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