GERMAN MUSSOLINI

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1932, Page 5

GERMAN MUSSOLINI

HITLER’S PLAN , i / REJECTED BY HINDENBERG. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ; BERLIN,' August 15. That Herr Hitler demanded from President Hindenbiirg “the same position as Mussolini received alter the. march on Rome,”.is now revealed *in an authoritative statement disclosing the inevitability/of the President’s re-' jection of the, Nazi demands.: / Official sources dwell on the fact that Hitler and the leading Nazis gave 1 a solemn assurance in the presence of witnesses that they would support any national government enjoying Hindenburg’s confidence, consequently Hindenburg ahd the government repudiate responsibility for the collapse of the Hitler negotiations..

The Government intimated that the Reichstag would definitely' meet on August 30, when whether or not by coincidence, the Steel Helmets’ exSoldiers' League, the most efficient and least extreme of the semi-military organisations closely associated with the present governing group, is assembling 160,000 for the annual rally at Berlin,

Meantime, outrages have ceased. Hitler has given the Storm Troops a week’s “leave” which is interpreted either as a gesture to support the denial that he planned a march on Berlin, or a belief that the disappointed restive units are better dispersed. Nazis’ journals declare that nothing will stop the Hitlerites’ onward march, adding: Bayonets’ may be useful, but the Government cannot sit on them permanently.

HITLERISM OPPOSED BY JEWS AN OFFENCE UNLESS CURBED. GENEVA, August 15.

“Hitlerism will become a challenge and an offence against all Jewry unless it is speedily curbed: The Jewish forces must unite in self-defence,” said Doctor Joseph Tenebaum, the Chairman of the American Jewish Congress, when speaking here at the Jewish World Conference. y He added: “The Nazis are spreading anti-semitism in many countries!” He recalled that Jews had supplied over 17 per cent, of Germany’s Army in war time, and that -12 per cent, of that proportion are buried on the battlefields.

Other speakers declared that the Jews in Germany were ‘‘down and out,” and that the chances of their recovery were lessened by the tendency to oust the Jews from tliq country’s economic life, combined with the poisoning of -the minds of the youth of Germany.' ; .. - .• '. ' A Polish speaker said that the reason why so few Jews wore attending this Conference was that they had become cowards. He addecj: “We have come here to launch a protest throughout the world against the present treatment of the Jews.” Doctor Motzik expressed the opinion that Palestine holds a future- for the Jewish race. “When there are a million ..Jews there,” he said, “the enemies of the Jews would speak and act differently.”

GERMANY’S UNEMPLOYED. : BERLIN, August 16. The German Government’s attempt to deal with the unemployment trouble is being hampered by Herr Luthqr the President of the Reichbank, who is unwilling to provide adequate credits. Herr Luther may be removed by Presidential decree