THE NEW EUROPE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 6

THE NEW EUROPE

SCHEMES OF NAZIS OPPOSITION ON CONTINENT DESIRE FOR FREEDOM (Omcial Wireless) (Received July 30. 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, July 29 Dr. Funk’s exposition of the Nazis’ schemes for a new economic order in Europe has not had very favourable press comment in the countries where comment is still free, according to summaries reaching London. The Swiss newspaper Democrat says: “Many economists consider that the driving of Britain from Europe and the construction of a separate European bloc would precipitate the haemorraghe of a dying continent.” This represents, in the view of experts here, a very shrewd view of the facts. A Norwegian journal says: “Swedish and Danish papers write regarding this that their countries’ culture is inseparably bound up with the old democratic tradition, and the same can. be said of Norway. We Norwegians have been accustomed for generations to think and talk freely and ourselves to choose who shall administer our affairs. If we lose these democratic rights we lose our culture’s kernal. “Perhaps we have not paid heed to the value of the free word and free criticism as we ought. We regarded them as a matter of course, but if we were one day to lose them a storm of indignation would burst forth.”