A GERMAN VIEW

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 291, 21 September 1935, Page 6

A GERMAN VIEW

HITLER AND BRITAIN THE ABYSSINIAN SITUATION Some interesting opinions on world affairs, and the effect of Signor Mussolini’s Abyssinian adventure on Italy’s relations with Germany, were expressed by Dr. F. G. Isphording, who is travelling to Vancouver by the Monowai, which arrived in Auckland from Sydney the other day (states the “Auckland Star”). Dr. Isphording was formerly manager of the Persia National Bank, but is now retired and has been travelling round the world since 1922 studying conditions in various countries by residing in them for a time. Dr. Isphording said he did 1 not think that Herr Hitler would allow Signor Mussolini to draw him into any arrangement which might be construed as against British interests. Many things had happened since the war, and in Germany British people were commonly regarded as sort of cousins. The Naval Agreement, and the Prince of Wiale’is recent speech, were signs that Germany and Britain were again drawing nearer eo each other, and the agreement for the exchange of military officers was also of great importance-. Asked what effect, in his opinion, Italy’s action in Ethiopia might have on the general situation of African colonies, Dr. Isphording said! with a smile, “I think we will get -some of our colonies back without shooting.’ “T think Hitler is the man of the century,” he said, when questioned regarding conditions in Germany. “Look what he has done for us. Jn 1933 we had more than 7,000,000 unemployed • to-day there are less than 2,000,000. 5 ’ He thought that if a vote were taken in Germany to-day. public opinion would he found as much behind Hitler as it was at the election which put him in power. Asked whether there was any likelihood that Hitler might embark on an anti-Soviet war, Dr. Isphording said that Germany had the strongest possible objection to Bolshevism, but would never make war against it outside her own territory. ■ .