DARING MANIFESTO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 16

DARING MANIFESTO.

ANTI-NAZI PARTY. HITLER’S POLICIES ATTACKED. Unsuspecting Berlin postmen have been distributing by the hundred thousand an anti-Nazi manifesto, the possessor of which could easily find himself in gaol, says a Berlin report dated June 17. It is issued by the German I reedom Party, the secret organisation which recently denounced the massacre of Guernica in pamphlets hearing the postmark Aachen, just inside the border from Belgium. The new one demands an explanation of Herr Hitler’s refusal to publish the amount of money spent on arms. “Why is this rearmament throwing a shadow over our whole economic life?” the reader of the manifesto .is asked. “Who threatens us, or are the. Nazis going to plunge us into the terrible adventure of a war of aggression? Why is the help being given to Franco kept secret? “Why are so many foreign newspapers barred from Germany ? Why are people punished for listening to foreign radio stations ? Who pays for the pomp which surrounds the Nazi leaders ?

“The position of our country is catastrophical. Up to the beginning of 1937 rearmament had cost us £2,583,000,000. Dr. Schacht, Minister of Economics, has been trying for a year to get loans in England, France, the United States, and Belgium, but without success. Not only would the British Cabinet not grant the Nazi Government credit, but London bankers turned down the idea of loans.

“A German’s word and a German’s business are not given credit. Why? Because of the gruesome unscrupulousness with which the bankruptcers liavo treated both the freedom and the property of the Geriman people.” | Certain death will be the fate of the ! printers and distributors of this manifesto if they are detected, for the | criticism contained within it is now | designated as treason in Germany.