NAZI DISSENSION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 77, 13 January 1936, Page 6

NAZI DISSENSION

LEADERS STRUGGLE FOR POWER HITLER’S SPEECHES CENSORED. DECREE BY THE CABINET. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, January 11. The “Daily Herald” declares that Herr Hitler’s Ministers are waging implacable war among themselves, in which personal feuds have culminated in open struggles for supremacy, under the close scrutiny of leading industrialists and army and Nazi officials, who realise that they may yet he compelled to take sides. The motet bitter quarrel is between Dr. Scliacht (Minister for Economics) on one side, and Dr. Goebbels (Minister for Propaganda) and Dr. Ley (leader of the '.Labour Front) on the other. While cynically watchful, General Goeriug favours a coup d’etat by the army rather than allowing Dr. Goebbels and Dr. Ley to secure supreme power. General von Blomberg (War Minister), who is the strongest of all,, stands more aloof. He is aware that the army is ready to follow him to a man wherever lie may lead. Herr Hitler still stands by Dr. Scliacht, but the Fuehrer’s position is not what it was. He was recently confronted with a Cabinet decree to submit his speeches to the Ministers before publication. Consequently the Press is excluded from his important meetings, and liis speeches are not being broadcast until an approved version is recorded and circulated on gramophone records.