AVERTED BY WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8

AVERTED BY WAR

THREAT OF REVOLUTION IN GERMANY OPINION OF AMERICAN OBSERVER. FEELING TURNED AGAINST BRITAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 22. “The New York Sun” prints an interesting despatch from a Paris correspondent stating that an American business man, who has been in Germany since the beginning of the war, left with the feeling that a revolution would break out in Germany during the ensuing winter if Hitler’s invasion of Poland had not kindled a temporary enthusiasm. The business man during the last week in August got the immediate impression that the country was on the verge of an upheaval. Criticism and dissatisfaction with the Hitler regime were widespread. People seemed to take it for granted that the collapse of the regime was imminent, but a clever propaganda campaign quickly per- 1 suaded everybody that it was England who began the war, for imperialistic purposes, with the result that popular sympathy immediately rallied to Hitler, unifying the nation in “a sincere belief that it was warring in self-de-fence. Thoughtful people, however, fear that Russia may employ the opportunity to spread communism through all Europe when the combatants are exhausted.