FOREIGN INSTIGATORS?

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20958, 10 November 1939, Page 5

FOREIGN INSTIGATORS?

ACCUSATION BY GERMANS NOT BELIEVED IN AMERICA ENMITY TO BOLSHEVISM (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, Nov. 9 “ The accusation in official German quarters that the attempted assassination of Hitler seems traceable to foreign instigators is incredible on the face of the event itself,” says the New York Times in a leading article. “ The attempt took place at a party rally which brought together the most important leaders governing the regime. Nobody knows how diligently these affairs are managed, with what meticulous care the premises are searched before the meetings, and what elaborate precautions are taken against the slightest risk, will be able to believe that foreign instigators, even if they wished, could have cut through the iron guard surrounding the Reich celebrities and plant an explosive in the very shrine of National Socialism. “It is possible that among the original Nazi zealots there are some who have believed so long and pasI sionately in the original doctrine of | undying enmity to Bolshevism that | they were prepared to avenge what j they considered an opportunist betrayal of that faith. This suspicion will gain credence if the explosion is followed by another drastic purge.”