Claim for Colonies

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 199, 8 September 1937, Page 5

Claim for Colonies

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■ 9 — GERMANY'S DISTRESS

The Pact With Japaii; Amity With Italy EC0N0M1C INDEPENDENCE

(By Telegraph-

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^Received 8, 10.40 a.m.) NUREMBURG, Sept. 7. Jierr Hitler's proclauiation at tho (.pening of the Nazi Congress did not confain anything new or sensationai, but nierely reiteraled old principiss, mciuding tlie claim for cololiies. The ivhole audience of 20,000 pieked Nazls stood as the Fuhrer entered the coiigress hall heralded by a faufare of trumpets. Herr Hitler's pfoelamtttion was read out by Herr Waguei^ Ooveruor of Bavafia. The problamation declared that the t'om-year plan for ecouoluic seif-sufii-cifcncy would be cartied out whutevor' :.lte difficUities inight be. Frieildly relations with Italy wefe beihg fettengthen^ ed, and the anti-Commuui'St phct with Japan stood unshaken. "Thfe agreemeUt between GermanV and Japan," the proclamatioU said,. "serves to secure co-operation for the defence of the civilised world against the attack now centred in Spain but wh.oli to-mofroW mUy be iaunclied iu tho Far East or anywhere else. " Herr Hitlef hoped that other natione Avould understand and strengtheu this front in defenCe Of poace and culture. The proclamation went on to eontrast the stability of Geruiany with the falling Wages and rising prices in the r«.st of tlie world, but added: " liowcver. wiimut colonies Germaii space is inadequate to i'eed the aation. 1". is au hnbearable thought tliat Germany, year after year, is dependent on good and bad seasons. Tlie claim to colonies is dictated meulj by economie disttess." The cougrws is the occasion i'er a frcsh outburst of anti-Semitism. Large pinlt postefs thi'oughoiit Gefhtaiiy an iieunce a special issue of Herr Streicher's (the Jew-baiter 's) pamphlet Der StUei'mer, entitled ' ' The Baudit RaCc. ' In this Herf Bti'eicher accuses Jews of ofiginating and controlling all the criminal organisations in the world, especially American gangsters. Moreover, ho says, hotel thieves, pickpockets and forgei's are all Jews. An ' aliti-Bolslievik exhibition is ono of tlie attractions of the cough'ess. It sliows a panorama of the world in wliicli Uussia is represented as a mass of flames. Eligland, lreland, India, Chnada, and Australia ai'e depicted as centres of Bolshevism. .. -- - —