The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24

live to carry it on and to do so while I felt still fit.
 "Right now with spring coming on feel particularly fit.
 q rely on the best armed force of the world - the best Germany ever fundamentally strong, well equipped and with good leaders.
 "Our armaments preparation is the proudest achievement of all time.
 Fools Think of Revolution
 Maybe there are a few fools here in Germany who thnk of reyolu- ton. Then they predict that winter will beat Germany. We are pretty well winterproof. We have stood thousands of winters.
 NO power in the world can dam age our indestructible unit"
 iGermany's enemies, Hitler said, twill see if we have slept through this winter
 During these long months when we fought with few ships Italy tied up the enemy's warShips.
 "It is not material to us if the Stukas sink British ships in the North Sea or the Mediterranean. We will strike England where 1t reaches toward the continent and will sink British ships wherever We can reach them"
 Hitler's audience burst into wild applause as he told them in an ad- dress broadcast by radio throughout Germany and most of Europe that:
 Sea Battles Now
 "Our battles at sea can begin in reality, only now.'
 wherever British boats appear" :" he declared, "our submarines will be ready for them."
 "The outside world has slept" Hitler said, while Germany has pre- pared her new campaign.
 Italy with whom he declared "in- soluble friendship has kept the British navy busy in the Mediter- ranean while Nai submarines have been built and new crews trained.
 DO not doubt that they have be- gun to arrive" he said. T have just received the news that our forc- es and submarines based on Belgium have sunk another 250,000 tons."
 He said that submarines took l9O,- 900 tons of this total alone and sank 125, 900 tons of shipping from sin gle convoy. "But the gentlemen" he said, had better be prepared for entirely dlf- ferent figures in March and April. HThey will then realize if we have slept during the winter or not. Dur ing these long months of prepara- tion Italy has materially assisted us. "It makes no difference whether we meet the enemy in the north sea or in the Mediterranean. Wherever British boats appear our subma- rines will be ready for them."
 Not Yet Collapsed
 Hitler declared that date after date had been set for his collapse by foreign propagandists.
 tThe same prophets are at work now as the assi-tants of British pro- paganda and foreign offices" he said.
 He recalled that Neville Chamber lain had asserted that Hitler missed the bus"
 "Even today" he said, "they keep setting dates. One of them is that in 1941 England will carry the war to the continent. We have to run after them even to find them but we shall find them wherever it may be-
 Hitler defended the German eco nornic structure and asserted that Germany never asked for the gold of America or any other country" Ut is not the bankers in New York or London who will determine our economic policies" he said. Il am not the slave of some of those international bankers or of any cap italistic group.
 aWe have a tremendous sales ter ritory and we are the greatest buy er."
 Hitler addressed his early Nazi as- sociates in the same beer hall where the party was founded 21 years ago today. The hall was decorated sim ply and the scene resembled that Of the night of Feb 24, 1920 when Hit
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