HITLER AND THE FUTURE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 5

HITLER AND THE FUTURE

-Own Correapondent )

Penetrating Review of the European Situation EYES TOWARDS THE EAST

(By Telexraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. A comprehensive and penetrating 'review of the international situation was given to menibers of the Auckland Grammar School Old Boys' Association at their luncheon by a past headmiaster of the school, Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, who has reeently returned frpm an extensivo European tour. Mr. Mahon described Europq as Ihe Trqaty of Yersailles had left it and briefly touched on the consequent troubles. He men.tioned the powerful Gerxnan nainority in Czechoslovakia and the potential powder magazine presenl in the Pplish Corridor. Most of his address concerned different aspecta of modern Germany. He said there was a feeling that German eyes lay to the east of Europe. Jhat Hitlqr wanted to absorh first Austria, a large proportion of : the six and a half milHqn Germans in • Whose. pq^ulation. vas German, an,d thon i Czechoslovakia, If that were d.one, then. | Hitler would be domin,ane in Europe. ] While it was qvident that the speaker j thought that- the policy of Hitler con- • stituted one of the dangers present in ; Europe to-day, he. was. no.t unmindful of ! the great go.o'd that the ruler of Germany had done his nation. He had given it a national pride, and a unity which it had lost after the war, but he had taken away the last vestige of freedpm. Mr, Mahon told of a conversation he had had with one German in a railway i carriage where they could not be overheard. While the Germans superficially ■ seemed to be content, his mf ormant admitted to him that in their hearts the German people wanted something different. Gn the other hand, they all admitted that Hitler had saved them from the one thing that Germans dreaded— Commumsm. Tbe speaker said het, admired the way in which the two churches in Germany ,the Roman Catholic ' and the Evangelieal, were standing up for the rights of Christianity against ,.,the "t^anny of Hitler- Had if not been for Hitler's un-Christian attitude, ha thought that Austria would have -been absorbed long ago. Mr Mahon finished his remarks. on Germany with one pregnant thought. One historian had said of Spain that its decline could be traced from the time it had thxust out its intellectuals in the shape of the Jews. One wondered if in the long tuu the banishment of Germany 's intellectuals would not be harmfhl to the country.