Evening star., 1940-07-20
Berlin
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Hitler had a 'elong conference" with
Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo
Ciano, who occupied a front row
seat at yesterdays Reichstag session.
German Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop, DR.. Otto Meissner,
Nazi Secretary OF State; Hans
Georg- -Viktor Won Mackensen, AM
bassador to Rome, and Italian Am
bassador Dino Alfieri sat in on the
conference.
The question of how much breath
ing space the Fuehrer would give
England before launching the long
predicted attack in force-since he
set no time limit in his offer-re-
mained his secret.
Informed sources said unofficially
that the treatment of Hitler's
speech yesterday by the British radio
and Reuters British news agency
was ''rowdyish, boorish and rude"
These sources previously had in
dicated that any hint of British
interest would delay the attack at
least temporarily.
ANY Channel Available.
Presumably. Hitler was approach
able by any channel England might
choose. It was recalled that
Frances capitulation was arranged
through Spanish diplomatic medi-
alton. and that william c. Bullitt,
United States Ambassador to
France, conveyed the news that
Paris had been left undefended.
That Hitler suspects there may
be no response was indicated in
these words from his declaration to
the Reichstag yesterday:
Possibly Mr.. Churchill will again
brush aside this statement of mine
by saying that it is merely born OF
fear and Of doubt in our final VIC
tory. In that case. shall have
relieved my conscience in regard
to the things to come"
If Britain does not reply favor
ably, Hitler predicted, "a great en-
pire will be destroyed, an empire
which it was never my intention to
destroy or even to HARM"
The Fuehrer did not explain how
Britain might manifest interest
nor did he make any special sug-
gestions as to the nature of the new
European era he envisages.
But as to any terms of peace, II
was clear they would be a victor's
conditions. He said: Il am not the
vanquished, begging favors, but the
victor, speaking in the name OF
reason"
To the Nazi leadership, the
choices open to Britain were utter
ly simple"-annihilation on the one
hand, or last-minute chance to
save something out of a situation
which the leaders said daily is be-
coming darker to British prospects
The responsibility now rests en-
tirely on the British leadership, they
said.
Hitler warned the people of Great
Britain that their leaders prob.
ably have no real conception o1
what 1t will mean, once the German
offensive begins In earnest against
the British Isles"
Briefly touching on Russo German
relations, Hitler declared these hac
been fixed once and for all by .
clear delimitation of spheres Of in.
terests," and that British efforts tt
lure Moscow into an anti German
front were not only futile but
foolish.
Victory in this war, Hitler alst
asserted, will be a victory for both
Italy and Germany, and "the wrong.
of both will be righted."
italy, the Fuehrer said, hat
entered the war entirely Of her owr
accord without any pressure from
Germany.
This action, however, had helpet
to make the French realize more
speedily the hopelessness of further
resistance. And, once Italy was ir
the war, Italo- German military ant
v,0litieal en.nr1arAtioa vna enYnnlata