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COMMENT ON THEM. THE CHANCELLOR HAD BEEN FURIOUS WHEN HE HEARD
 
OF THIS LIE BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER SAID THAT THE REELECTION OF
 
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS A MISTAKE. ON THE CONTRARY HE HAD AL-
 
WAYS BEEN OF THE OPINION THAT NOBODY ELSE BUT PRESIDENT ROOSE-
 
VELT WOULD BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE IMPORTANT TASKS WHICH THE
 
PRESIDENT HAD BEGUN DURING HIS FIRST TERM.
 
     REFERRING TO THE WAR THE CHANCELLOR SAID THAT THE
 
PRESENT WAR WAS A CURIOUS ONE IN THAT GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR
 
ON NOBODY BUT THAT ENGLAND AND FRANCE HAD DECLARED WAR ON GER-
 
MANY. GERMANY HAS NO WAR AIMS OTHER THAN TO OPPOSE THE WAR
 
AIMS OF HER OWN DESTRUCTION, AS PROCLAIMED BY ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
 
THESE COUNTRIES, THE CHANCELLOR SAID, WANT TO DISMEMBER GERMANY
 
TO INTERFERE WITH HER OWN INTERNAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND TO
 
MAKE HER SUBJECT TO A FRANCO-BRITISH HEGEMONY. THESE ARE THE
 
WAR AIMS, THE CHANCELLOR CONTINUED, WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN WIDE
 
PUBLICITY IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES, BUT ENGLAND AND FRANCE LACK