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SEAS IN UNENDURABLE. THE EFEECTS OF SUCH DICTATORSHIP HAVE ONLY
 
RECENTLY BEEN GIVEN FURTHER EXPRESSION THROUGH THE ACTION TAKEN
 
BY GREAT BRITAIN IN STOPPING MARITIME TRANSPORT OF GERMAN COAL
 
TO ITALY. WITH REGARD TO THE MILITARY SITUATION THE CHANCELLOR
 
SAID THAT IN THE WORLD WAR THERE WERE 136 GERMAN DIVISIONS ON 
 
THE EAST FRONT AND 117 ON THE WEST FRONT, WHILE AT PRESENT THERE 
 
ARE 200 DIVISIONS ON THE WEST FRONT ALONE. SPEAKING AS A SOLDIER
 
IN THE GREAT WAR HE SAID THAT HE HAD LEARNED HOW TO EVALUATE HIS
 
OPPONENTS AND HE KNOWS THAY ARE NOT SUPERIOR TO THE GERMANS.
 
GERMANY HAS NO WAR AIMS-- ONLY AGRESSORS HAVE WAR AIMS AND IN THE
 
PRESENT WAR THE AGRESSORS ARE THOSE WHO DECLARED WAR, NAMELY
 
ENGLAND AND FRANCE. SHOULD IT BE SAID THAT GERMANY HAD ATTACKED
 
POLAND, ONE MUST REMEMBER THAT ACTION WAS TAKEN BY GERMANY
AGAINST
 
POLAND IN ORDER TO PUT AND END TO POLISH TERRORISM AGAINST THE
 
GERMAN MINORITIES IN THAT COUNTRY. THERE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN A
 
GERMAN-POLISH WAAR IF ENGLAND HAD NOT INTERFERED IN THE POLISH