Evening star., 1940-02-25
Friendship With
Soviet, Ito|y and
japan Reuffirmed
(Tert OF Adolf Hitler's speech
on Page A-4)
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MUNICH, Feb. 24.-Adolf Hitler
cried out tonight that Germany will
fight until the terror of the plutoc-
racies has been broken" declared
the three mighty states" of Russia,
Italy and Japan to be his friends
and proclaimed his trust that God is
with him and his Nazi Reich.
To his old guard, in an hours
speech broadcast over the world.
the Fuehrer asserted "the hand of
Providence" saved him from death
in bomb explosion in this very city
last November and declared the
same Providence has especially
blessed u.s. for six years.
Sounding the World War battle
cry of Imperial Germany-"Gott
init Uns"-the Fuehrer shouted that
Germany was fighting against the
idea that one or two peoples Of
the earth should have everything.
God didn't make the world for Eng
liShmen alone -
do you think Providence would
have blessed> us only to drop us
now?" he asked. Is. There is a
God-he creates people with equal
rights"
stronger Than 1914 Reich"
Today's Germany, he said. is
stronger in every way than the i'm
perial Reich of 19l4-but, especially
in its leadership.
Preceded by the blood stained
flag which headed his marchers in
/ the beer cellar putsch of 1923 and
surrounded by old party fighters,
Hitler came to Munich's Haufbrau
Hall tonight to commemorate the
founding Of the Nazi party and its
adoption Of 25-point program 20
years ago.
1t was his first speech in Munich
since the Burgerbrauhaus explosion
wrecked the scene of the original
beer cellar plot and killed eight per-
sons shortly after Hitler had left.
On the eve Of United States Un-
dersecretary of State Sumner
Welles' arrival in Europe for a
feeling out of possible ways to peace,
the Fuehrer gave defiant war
message to his nation and to the
Notwithstanding to smash any
one who seeks to deny Germany
her rightful living space, jeering
at these Chamberlains and their
top hats sneering at Winston
Churchill and disdaining to reveal
specific war aims.
He did mention his terms prior
to the start of the war and de-
scribed them as modest-"security of
our living space, return of our
colonies" But his present price for
peace went unnamed.
mot Destined to Be Slaves"
What we are fighting against" /"
he shouted admist cries of approval,
'is the idea that one or two peoples
of the earth should have everything
God didn't make the world for
Englishmen alone it simply
cannot be that the German people
are destined to be slaves of the
English and French"
Significantly, Hitler reverted to
his early-war practice of leaving
France almost out of his structures.
Coming back to 1914, he intimated
Germany would have won the World
War had he been at the helm. The
nations leaders then, he declared,
were second rate" But today
I'VE all know that neither militarily
nor economically can Germany be
defeated. The decisive thing Is
leadership"
More than in any recent speech,
the. Fuehrer claimed God as his ally
the ally Of the German people.
An awed hush fell over his fire.
quently noisy listeners when he took
them back to the night of the blast
in the Burgerbrahaus and told them
solemnly:
"Only a few months ago, in q
very special way, I experienced the
hand OF Providence"
Invokes Friendships.
Again Hitler invoked his friend
ship with Soviet Russia and Italy,
and this time he spoke in the same
breath of Japan.
Three mighty nations" which
were Germany's enemies in 1914 now
are friendly, "benevolently neutral, u
he said.
This was just one of the reasons
he gave why 1T cannot be otherwise
(See HITLER, Page A-40