GERMAN OUTLOOK

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1933, Page 5

GERMAN OUTLOOK

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• Including eleven yeiars’ service 4itlf'J :'Central Europe, .^b^^ioner^JßrnhO-:• Eriedefich, Villi ■ is'' G^rnf^iiborn,,. hag just .retired 7, frdip-1 tbe, Salvation; , ' afW v s^Tvree’ atid~ ; proceeding hciiralen rrqute; to Canada, where he,, wil 1 settlU do Wl] •H© left Germany' -last', ; .elements ,of 7 .warkare '.present in every country 'in Europe,' L ' without exception,” said Mr • Friedrich today. '“Those,;seeds' of warkmaycome .to saihe fimepT must Aay neither. the German, people nof_ ftny othorv people 'of; U^nt|a|! > i !@rbJlis|^ii|it\-M M *■ .p| ■ Mr '‘monftoe of HiUbiisnT' was to . some extent exaggerated. Most of Hitler’s utterances on international affairs were mrfoly. geVvresl in fVfe.:;, ■ *of sixty-four million people. You cannot always keep it down. If you do not reduce your armaments,' then , neither will we reduce; ours. If . you will not come down 'tos.vour status, war must came up to yours- Wo are surrounded by a ring of enemies, who can invade us within a few'days.' We must have the right to defend ourselves, and sufficient men to make that right effective.”... ■ " - ' '

The persecution 1 ; of the Jews. ; was the work of the extreme section of liis following, which Hitler could not control, said Mr Friederich. It constituted -'a meoiancp to Hitlerism itself. No, one could say that Hitler did not lead a moral; life. Ha was a temperate man, a vegetarian, and did not smoke. He had accomplished one wonderful • thing in uniting, in ten weeks, tjyenty-four States . in. an aim which others had been trjing to realise for the past ten years. One result, of central authority was the teaching of English in aIL schoois, as ■ the ' first of v secondary - A languages after 'German. , ' . ./' ’