HORROR IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 7

HORROR IN BRITAIN

RESPONSIBILITY OF NAZI AUTHORITIES

GERMANY DISGRACED.

EVERY MARK OF OFFICIAL CONDONATION. LONDON, November 11. “The Times,in an editorial today, says that no foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings, beatings and blackguardly assaults upon defenceless and innocent people which disgraced that country yesterday. Either the German authorities were a party to this outbreak or their power over public order and the hooligan minority are not what they are proudly claimed to be. “The Times” then refers to accusations against Mr Churchill, Mr Eden, and Mr Duff Cooper, in the newspaper “Der Angriff” as being instigators of the murder of Dr. von Rath, and says that it is quite another matter when foreign countries and their citizens are wantonly involved against their will in the concerns of another.

This attempt to implicate British politicians in the murder of Dr. von Rath is not the work of an obscure sheet, but of a journal controlled by the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels. It is much worse than merely ludicrous. It is wholly intolerable. It demands official notice and should receive it without delay. The “Daily Telegraph” says that the pogroms bear every mark of careful organisation and official condonation, otherwise it is impossible to explain the simultaneous outbreaks throughout the country at the curious hour of 2 a.m. and the importance of the most efficient police force in the world. German revenge has been one of the most terrible things in the present, century. The “News Chronicle” claims that there is no basis for such savagery, and asks: "Can there by any hope of an understanding between the leaders of Germany and the people of this country?”