and, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, and the Baltic States. (Jan. 30, 1939)[109]

In Hitler's Reichstag speech of April 28, 1939, in which he replied to
President Roosevelt's telegraphic message inviting him and Mussolini
to pledge themselves not to attack 31 countries mentioned by name, he
stated:

_... All states bordering on Germany have received much more
binding assurances, and above all suggestions, than Mr.
Roosevelt asked from me in his curious telegram ..._

The German Government is nevertheless prepared to give each
of the States named an assurance of the kind desired by Mr.
Roosevelt on the condition of absolute reciprocity, provided
that the State wishes it and itself addresses to Germany a
request for such an assurance together with appropriate
proposals.[110]

And on September 1, 1939, with reference to the recently concluded
pact between Germany and Russia, he said:

You know that Russia and Germany are governed by two
different doctrines. There was only one question that had to
be cleared up. Germany has no intention of exporting its
doctrine. Given the fact that Soviet Russia has no intention
of exporting its doctrine to Germany, I no longer see any
reason why we should still oppose one another. On both sides
we are clear on that. Any struggle between our people would
only be of advantage to others. We have, therefore, resolved
to conclude a pact which rules out forever any use of
violence between us.[111]

Additional assurances of this nature are quoted in a series of
extracts from Hitler's speeches, dating from February 10, 1933 to
September 1, 1939, which was printed in the _London Times_ of
September 26, 1939 (document 14, _post_ p. 232).

_2. Internal Propaganda_

Within Germany the notorious propaganda machine of Dr. Goebbels,
together with a systematic terrorization of oppositionist elements,
has been the principle support of the rise and triumph of the Nazi
movement. In his _Legal Organization and Legal Functions of the
Movement_ (document 8, _post_ p. 204), Gauweiler gives an idea of the
permeation of all phases of national life with a propaganda designed
to make Nazi "legal principles" acceptable to the masses. He makes it
clear that all of the Nazi propaganda machinery is in the service of
this program; political lecturers, the press, the radio, and the films
a