GERMAN NATIONALISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 9

GERMAN NATIONALISM

HERR HITLER’S EXHORTATION DEFENCE AND DEFIANCE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NUREMBURG, Sept. 11. (Received Sept. 13, at 7 p.m.) Herr Hitler delivered a rousing speech last night to a crowd estimated at 150,000 people. Wave after wave of cheers rolled out as Herr Hitler said; “ Our only prayer all these years has been for external and interna] peace that we may build up our Reich after our own ideas, not after those of Bolshevist Jews. Should our enemies once more dare to attack they will be felled to the ground. We never hesitate to sacrifice our peace in order to put down disturbances to peace which the whole nation knows.” CONCERN IN SOUTH AFRICA RETURN OF GERMAN TERRITORY CAPETOWN, Sept. 11. South Africa is greatly alarmed at the turn of events at Nureraburg. The Cape Times points out that every member of the Union Government in the past few years has clearly stated that South Africa cannot consider cession of Southwest Africa or Tanganyika, and says: “ It is difficult to imagine even on the widest grounds of world policy how the South African view can be over-ridden.” WOMEN SOLDIERS NOT DESIRED IN GERMANY NUREMBERG, Sept. 12. (Received Sept. 13, at 8 p.m.) Obviously alluding to women soldiers in the Soviet Red Army, Herr Hitler, addressing the Nazi women’s organisation, said: “We shall see there will not be detachments of hand grenade girls and women sharpshooters and the like in Germany. From our standpoint, a woman who rears children and thus safeguards the existence of the future of our people has done more than any learned woman.” He ridiculed the view abroad that the German woman was being treated as a.slave. “ What some people regard as a yoke is held by others to be a blessing. Nature acted wisely in allotting to man the task of protecting his family and his nation.” RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER ANGRY ATTACK ON DR GOEBBELS LONDON, September 12. (Received Sept. 13, at 8 p.m.) The Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent reports that the newspaper Pravda violently attacks Dr Goebbels and says: “This dwarf with crooked legs and an enormous, twisted caricature of a nose is a complete clinical specimen of the degenerate. We quite deliberately mention the loathsome appearance of this chief theoretician of German Fascism, this apostle of the purity of the German race.” EYES ON RUSSIA HERR HITLER’S PROPHECY BERLIN, Sept. 13. (Received Sept. 13, at 9 p.m.) Significance of the view of the “ Drang Nach Osten ” doctrine attache? to Herr Hitler’s references to Russia during several speeches at Nuremburg. He said that, if Germany possessed the mineral wealth of the Urals and Siberia and the wheat fields of Ukraine, she would, under the Nazi regime, swim in plenty instead of fighting for existence. These references recall his statements in his book, “ Mein Kampf,” in which he says: “ When we speak of a new land we can think only of Russia. Fate itself seems to point the finger for us there. That gigantic country is ripe for dissolution. The end <pf Jewish rule in Russia will be the end of Russia as a State.” ANTI-RUSSIAN TIRADES WOULD HAVE MEANT WAR BEFORE 1914 GETTING ON DANGEROUS GROUND NUREMBURG, Sept; 13. (Received Sept. 13, at 9 p.m.) Commenting on the anti-Russian tirades of the Nazi leaders, a personage in a high position in both old and new Germany admitted to the London Times special correspondent that these would have meant war within 24 hours in the days before 1914. How far the campaign would be allowed to go would depend to some extent on world reaction to yesterday’s outburst, but it would not be surprising if Herr Hitler brought the crusade of antiBolshevist fury to a crescendo with some startling announcement. Germany’s first object was to secure a weakening of the Franco-Soviet pact. In any case it was hoped to win Britain’s adherence to an antiBolshevist crusade under German leadership. Thus financial and economic support might be ensured for Germany where other arguments failed.