Foreign News: Goring to the U.S.

Attired in the white silk Buster Brown shirt and leather knee pants of his Master-of-the-Hunt suit, Hermann Goring last week entertained in the vast study of his Karinhall hunting lodge Karl von Wiegand. Month before the No. 1 Hearst foreign correspondent had been given an exclusive interview with the No. 1 Nazi, Adolf Hitler, who wanted to get across the idea that the U. S. had nothing to fear from Germany. The story was neither widely published nor widely believed in the U. S. So the No. 2 Nazi now tried his hand at the same job in the first private interview he had given to a foreign newsman since the war began.

According to Correspondent von Wiegand, Marshal of the Reich Göring was not only surprised but irritated that the U. S. should have the slightest anxiety about Germany. Said the Marshal:

“To Germany your fear in America of invasion from across the seas strikes us as a strange delusion, and stranger still is the delusion that the invasion is to come from Germany. . . . With a ‘moat’ more than 3,000 miles wide on one side and more than 5,000 miles on the other, America is simply not invadable by air or sea. That’s particularly true if America’s armaments and national defense are appropriate to or commensurate with the country’s size, population, resources and industrial production, not to mention the spirit of the people. . . . Militarily it’s absurd. We are not yet in an age of inter-hemisphere air wars. . . .

“I stand by what I agreed with Sumner Welles, and that is that sound economic reconstruction and conditions can be arrived at in Europe and in the world only in cooperation with America.”