DANGER OF WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1933, Page 5

DANGER OF WAR

THE NAZI POLICY

REACTION TO PAPEN’S SPEECH.

(United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegr a ph—Copyright)

BERLIN, May 16

Overseas reactions to Captain Papen’s speech notably in Britain where it is realised there is a marked revulsion of feeling, are giving the Germans considerable perturbation. The man in tbe street is unmistakably surprised and horrified at the talk of the danger of war and •is puzzled why foreigners disbelieve Hitler’s dictum that Germany 'needs peace.

Nevertheless, there is skilful pro* p ganda describing the adverse criticism as a smoke screen to coyer the ■faJure of the Disarmament Conference, for which France is blamed. A modern version of the pillory was introduced during the conveyance of political prisoners to a concentration camp near Karlsruhe. Dr ißemmele (ex-Prcsident of Baden), also a- Socialist Deputy in the Reichstag, a Socialist journalist, and expolice chief, and several leaded of the ißeichsbanner at Baden, were placed bare-headed in an open police lorry, strongly guarded by Brown (Shirts, and where driven slowly through the main streets °f Karlsruhe to enable the crowds to. insult end jeer the captives.

NAZIS TAKEN TO TASK

LONDON, May 16

Lord Mclchett, made a fierce attack on Nazi regime, when speaking at the 'Queen’s Hall. He described Germany a : s “an absolute death trap for the 600,000 Jew ls there.” He said that during the Spanish Inquisitions, the Jews could escape by being converted, but there was no escape of that kind in Germany to-day where .people were allowing themselves to be dominated, by 'a small body of unbalanced savage individuals. He cited a case in which he alleged a German worker was forcibily “persuaded” to resign office in union, after being taken to ;a dark celler, full of semi-conscioug men, who were in various stages of being beaten up. The' only permanent .solution of the Jewish problem was the extension of settlement in Palestine.