GOEBELL’S DEFENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1933, Page 6

GOEBELL’S DEFENCE

OF THE NEW GERMANY. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 2.15 p.m.) GENEVA, September 28. The' Australian Press Association says that fulfilling his job as Minister of Propaganda " Herr Goebbels held a seance afternoon which caused greater excitement than the .proceedings of all the commissions together. Fully two hundred journalists, representing the press of the world, accepted invitations to the distant hotel where the Germans are staying. Cards of entry were closely scrutinised by a. hefty bodyguard lining the hotel entrance.

There was a. tense silence when Herr Goebells 'rose and read an address on national socialist Germany and her contribution to the world "peace. He lead th 0 - address quietly, but occasionally 'with the ringing tone and flashing c'yes'of the fanatic. He made Shell "a quiet, moderate, plausible defence of - the new Germany that one wondered Whether all the stories of cruelties and. ill treatments were - a dream.

Herr Goebells said the concentration camps were only used to convert antisocial leaders, info useful citizens. The camps were open to foreigners inspection. It was unjust and shortsighted to infer that Germany desired war more than any other nation. Germany wanted peace for the solution of the economic crisis.

Discussng foreign anxiety regarding Jews, Herr Goebbels said they had become absolute masters of the German 'press, literature, .theatre, ciiv cma, medical and legal professions and stock exchange and were the rulers of parliament parties. This excess of Jewish influence had been dealt with bv legal and humane methods. The Government had acted in Europe’s best interests, erecting a solid wal lagainst anarchy chaos and Bolshevism.