INCREDIBLE TALE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 10 November 1939, Page 7

INCREDIBLE TALE

NEW YORK OPINION ACCUSING FOREIGNERS SAFEGUARDS RECALLED ASSEMBLY OF LEADERS (Reed. Nov. 10, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 9. The New York Times, in a leading article, says that the accusation in official German quarters of an attempted assassination of Herr Hitler and that it seems to be traceable to foreign instigators is incredible on the face of the event itself.

“The attempt took place at a party rally which brought together the most important leaders of the governing regime,” states the New York Times. “Nobody who knows how diligently these affairs are managed and with what meticulous care the premises are searched before meetings and the elaborate precautions taken against the slightest risk will be able to believe that foreign instigators, even if they wished, could cut through the iron guard surrounding the Reich celebrities and plant an explosive in the very shrine of national socialism.

“It is possible that among the original Nazi zealots there are some who have believed so long and passionately in the original doctrine of undying enmity to bolshevism that they were prepared to avenge what they ''onsidcrcd an opportunist betrayal of that faith. This suspicion will gain credence if tire explosion is followed by another drastic purge.”