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Reactions. The Nazi press naturally declared that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over."
To Virginio Gayda, journalistic mouthpiece of Dictator Benito Mussolini, Herr Hitler's words were the answer not only to the President but to the "French-British policy of encirclement." Worldwide opinion, however, remained about the same as it was before either message or speech: that Adolf Hitler would not be curbed by words. But if he was strictly truthful for once in a public utterance, the world had been given a pretty good idea of where the next trouble spot was situated (see p. 18).
* Used as the Reichstag meeting place since 1933 when the Reichstag Building was burned (Nazis said by Communist incendiaries, others said by Nazi incendiaries). The Opera House is about to be razed to make way for an "Avenue of Splendor"; the Reichstag Building is now almost rebuilt.