NAZI POLICY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 7

NAZI POLICY

NO FREEDOM OF PRESS NEWSPAPER REPORT SUPPRESSED, WHOLE ISSUE CONFISCATED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 7, 11.40 a.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 6. Because it gave a full report of Church Synod dissensions at yesterday’s meeting, which ended in uproar when the Nazi Church Party jeered at a section of the delegates, headed by Pastor Koch, for opposing a plan for altering the constitution, the authorities have confiscated the whole of this morning’s issue of the “Berliner Tageblatt.” After Pastor Koch and his followers left Synod the Nazis passed a resolution to the effect that pastors should be dismissed unless they supported the Government wholeheartedly and were of Aryan descent. NEWSPAPERS HARD HIT. ("Times 1 ’ Cable.) (Received 7, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. “The Times” Berlin correspondent states that several formerly prosperous newspapers are in difficulties, principally because the political co-ordination has rendered the press colourless and political discussion has ceased. THE SAAR VALLEY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 7, 11.10 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 6. Herr Burckel, who, from beyond the frontier, directs Nazi activities in the Saar, has circularised Nazi officials there declaring that the watchword is a “perfect discipline and blind obedience.” Nazis are urged not to discuss the 1935 plebiscite in connection with the future government of the Saar as the result might be gravely compromised by giving their adversaries a pretext for undesirable measures.