NAZI CRISIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 5

NAZI CRISIS

REPORTED IN NEW YORK GOERING MAKING STAND FOR PEACE. FAR-REACHING CHANGES PREDICTED. By Telegraph —Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, January 19. Newspapers here are prominently featuring two dispatches from widely different sources indicating the existence of a crisis in Germany.

William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, states that private ’and frank correspondence from diplomatic sources in London and Paris reveals that the situation inside Germany is far from good. Field-Marshal Goering, who advised Herr Hitler against any policy which might plunge the country into war, has incurred the enmity of Herr von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, and Herr Himmler, Chief! of Police.

Moreover, since the Czech crisis there has been a 20 per cent reduction in the production of German key industries, and it is believed that those are due to a deliberate slow-down strike by workers, who have no other means of registering their disapproval of a policy which they believe is leading them into another unwanted war. Dr Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda. is said to be in disfavour with Herr Hitler because of his antiSemitic extremes. The morale of the German people is represented to be noticeably on the wane, though the food supply and other essentials are up to the standard of recent years. The reason, therefore, is said to be the strain to which Herr Hitler’s policy is subjecting the German nation. The second dispatch is from the Berlin correspondent of the Louis Lochner Press, who says that reports of far-reaching changes in Nazi administration, involving Field-Marshal Goering, Dr Goebbels and others, are current in Berlin, and that official Nazi sources decline to comment. DENIAL IN BERLIN NO CABINET CHANGES PENDING. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) BERLIN, -January 19. The Reich Press Chief, Herr Dietrich, states that foreign reports of impending changes in the Cabinet are without foundation.