NO MILITARISM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 196, 1 June 1934, Page 8

NO MILITARISM

THE ATTITUDE OF GERMANY.

NEW ZEALANDER’S IMPRESSION.

(Special to the “ Guardian.'') AUCKLAND, May 31. i “There is no danger of Germany making war for at least ten years. 1 There were signs of quasi-militarism, ( but I found no militarism' in Germany,” said Professor P. W., 33uv- : bidge, professor of physics at the Auck- i land University College, in a lecture to the Auckland Institute. He spoke of ’ conditions as he found them during his recent tour of Australia, England, : Germany and the United States. To-day, he said, there was to be oh- < served everywhere he went a contest between nationalism and internationalism, with, he regretted to find, nationalism in the ascendant. There I , was evidence of a strong nationalistic reaction, and as it was impossible to < divide nations into separate blocks « where there were conflicting interests, : that meant war. Inefficient democracy had been replaced by dictatorships ir. Europe and America and by Commun- i ism, in Russia.. Unless New Zealand’s system was improved! it, too, would be replaced. In Germany the revival of the national spirit had aroused the people from the depths of despair, and though he found that at least 80 per cent, of ; the people were Nazi and every method of expression controlled, it was not considered autocracy. The mentality of the German was such that he was content that everything should be subject to the good of the State. Professor Burbidge said he had discussed! the campaign against' the Jews with many educated Germans and., the conclusion . he came to was that the Germans, convinced that the campaign was for the good of the State, had not considered the human side of it.