NAZI PLANS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 7

NAZI PLANS

HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED;

"SADLY AMATEURISH"

HUGE PROPAGANDA SCHEME

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, September 21. All tho vast schemes Germany is to adopt to give relief to the unemployed in the winter "Tho Times" describes as '' sadly amateurish.'' House to house collections are to be organised over the whole of urban and rural Germany; specially necessitous areas will be "adopted" by tho more fortunate towns, as places in the devastated areas of France have been, adopted by British towns; systematio deductions will be made from wages and salaries and regular transfers from their bank accounts to a central fund are to be authorised by the richer citizens. Workmen are to contribute approximately the earnings of one h_our's work a month. Moreover, on the.first Sunday of every month no German will be expected to spend more than six* pence on his midday meal, and , the money thereby saved is to swell . the relief fund. ...

"In themselves these plans," say» ««Tho Times," "reduce {he spending power of those who might increase employment They make no single contribution to the /extension of work. They create no wealth. They can do nothing to ameliorate the economic life of the nation. They simply erect a vast eleemosynary system. The scheme will no doubt help to feed the unemployed during the worst months of. tha year, and the first response to Herr; Goebbels's appeal has been remarkable, voluntary lump subscriptions to the fund having amounted to over two mil* lion marks on the first day. The greatest sympathy foi the German unemployed will be felt in other countriet besides Germany, for their lot is likelyj to be harder than any; but it may be permissible to point out that no policy) of 'self-sufficiency,' so dear to Nazi, theorists, can possibly solve their unemployment problem. It may be arguea rather that the one way by wbicK prosperity can return is by the revival of international trade;.that the greatest obstacle of all to that revival is the lack of international confidence; and that the greatest- single cause of lack of confidence in Europe is the restless scheming of. German foreign policy;'* NEW MANNERS. AND MORALS. On Ocotber 1 the Nazis will begin a two months' propaganda campaign, iit the course of which they will hold, 150,000 public meetings. ' All the party orators are called upon! to address fifteen meetings if in higli office, and twenty-five if not thus preoccupied. Announcing the campaign at a mass meeting in the sports palace in .Berlin* Herr Goebbels said:—"The entire nation has now been clutched by the iron clamps of the Nazi organisation. Whether we are already In a materially; happy position does not matter so much. Later generations will judge, not by] the question whether they had enougii "to eat, but by the historical value of their achievements." A call to "a radical rebirth of German womanhood from the clear springs of Teutonic-German national motherhood" is issued by Fran Emma Wagner} on behalf of the Nazi Women's -Front* "We know," she writes, "that a propaganda campaign only has sense if it leads to new manners and new morals. The decision as V our racial future lies with the individual woman, who must again prepare for man a home 3n. her heart and awaken his desire for paternity." Fran Wagner is confident that tha "solution of the woman question" on; these principles will bring with it "a! profoundly moral reform of the rela* tions of the sexes to one another." A LONELY VOICE. A daring protest against the exclusion of persons of Jewish blood from the Christian ministry was made at tlia convocation of the church of HesseNassau, by Pastor Amborn, the leader of the "Young Reform Movement." He said that the totality claim of. the Nazi state was limited by.'.'the absolute totality claim of our eternal King.'' Obedience to God must take precedence* over obedience to man. The "Aryan; clause" might have its justification foij the State, but it must be rejected. byj the Church, since it was incompatible with the truth of the Apostle's Creed* He had been urged to make a sacrifice in tho causo of unity, but obedience to Divine law was paramount. The representatives of the Nazi German Christians replied that the Church: could not be spared the Aryan programme, for this was aimed at "cos* mopolitan Jewry, which had been too aggressive in Germany and had brought the country to the brink of Bolshevism." ' .. Against the single dissentient voice of Pastor Amborn, convocation adopted the "Aryan .clause," which provides that a person with as much as 25 per cent, of Jewish blood in.his veins may; not hold an office in the Church, lipwever humble this may be. ■ HERB GOEBBELS AT GENEVA.. As Minister of Air, General Goering has forbidden the carrying of cameras in aeroplanes over German territory; without his express permission. This prohibition is justified by "the increased importance of aerial pictures in view of the national defence." The interesting announcement is mad« that Herr Goebbels, the Minister off Propaganda, will be one of Germany's delegates at the meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva this month. Th» Foreign Minister (Baron yon Neurath)' will head the delegation, which will also include Germany's permanent representative on the Council (Minister; yon Keller). The substitute delegates will bo Herr yon Gaus, ex-Secretary of State Baron yon Bheinboden, and the Minister at Berne (Herr yon Wei?« sacher). ________________