THE GERMAN VIEW

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 650, 30 September 1933, Page 5

THE GERMAN VIEW

(Press Assn.—

1 impressive speech TWO HUNDRED JOURNALISTS LISTEN TO GOEBEL'S EXPLANATION AIMING AT WORLD PEACE

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

.Geneva, Sept. 28. The Australian Press Association says: "Fulfilling his job as Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels held a seance this afternoon which caused j greater excitement than the proeeedings of all the commissions together."

Fully 200 journalists, representing the press of the world, accepted invitations to a distant hotel where the Germans are staying..- The cards of entry were closely scrutinised by a hefty bodyguard which lined the hotel entrance. There was tense silence when Dr. Goebbels rose and read an address on "National and Socialist Germany and her contribution to world peace." The Minister read his address quietly, but occasionally with the j ringing tones and the flashing eyes i of a fanatic. j Altogether, however, he made such j a quiet, moderate and plausible defence of New Germany that one wondered whether all the stories of cruelties and ill-treatments were a ! dream. j Dr. Goebbels said that concentration camps were only used to convert anti-social leaders into useful citizens. The camps were open to foreigners' inspection. War Not Desired It was unjust and short-sighted to infer that Germany desired war. More than any other nation Germany wanted peace for a solution of the economic crisis.

j. Discussing foreign anxiety regarding the Jews, Dr. Goebbels said they had become absolute masters of the German press literature, theatres, cinemas, the medical and legal professions and the Stock Exchange, and were also rulers of parliamentary parties. .This excess of Jewish influence had been dealt with by legal and humane methods.. The Government, he declared, had acted in Europe's best interests by erecting a solid wall against chaos and bolshevism.