UNIVERSAL FEAR IN EUROPE.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 4

UNIVERSAL FEAR IN EUROPE.

Professor Roberts, Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney, in a lecture on conditions in Germany, said that when he stepped on the boat to cross the Channel to England a dreadful pall of horror dropped from his shoulders. Even in poverty-stricken Austria, he said, the women and children were making all kinds of sacrifices and working with the military in anning the country. In Belgium, amidst the most beautiful forest scenery, armies of rnen were feverishly mounting huge guns and building concrete strongholds. "Everywhere in Europe," he said, "there is a pall of fear in every mind, and in Germany a resigned fatalism to a coming war which even Hitler admits will practically wipe out his country if the present Euopean alliances operate during the next war. "Europe is in the thrall of dictators, and the average person is not allowed to have any opinion of his own. If you disagree with what is being done you afe shot down instantly. In Germany the young men and women. have been turned into great physical beings up to the neck of their bodies, but above that there is no room for ordinary intellectual development, and no cultivation of freedom of expression. Everyona does what he or she is told to do."-