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The duration of the broadcast of the translator's summary
was about forty-five minutes.
With regard to Hitler's attacks on democracies, I
was able to check verbatim the following passage which
is identic with the full translation of that passage
from the text of tne speech:
"In certain democracies it is apparentiy one
of the special prerogatives of political democratic
life to cultivate an artificial hatred of the so
called totalitarian states. A flood of reports,
partly misrepresentations of the facts, partly pure
invention, are let loose, the aim being to stir up
public opinion against nations which have done noth-
ing to harm tne other nations and have no desire to
harm them, and which indeed have been for years the
victims of harsh injustice. When we defend ourselves
against such agitators as Mr. George Cooper, Mr. Eden,
Mr. Ickes, and the rest, our action is denounced as
an encroacnment on the sacred rights of the democra-
cies. According to the way these agitators see things,
they are entitled to attack other nations and their
governments, but no one is entitled to defend himself
against such attacks. I need hardly assure you that
as long as the German Reich continues to be a sover-
eign state no English or American politician will be
able to for0id our Government to reply to such at
tacks. And the arms tnat we are forging are our
guarantee for all time to come that we sall remain
a sovereign state, our arms and our choice or friends.
Actually, the assertion tnat Germany is planning an
attack on America could be disposed or by a mere
laugh, and one would preI'er to pass over in silence
the incessant agitation of certain British war mon-
gers."
Chancellor Hitler's speech was issued in Germany in
the first nignt issue of tne semi-official German News
Bureau Bulletin of Monday, January SO, 1939. I have made
a careful comparison of this German text with the printed
translation