IMPASSIONED APPEAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 130, 14 March 1936, Page 5

IMPASSIONED APPEAL.

HITLER ADDRESSES 100,000. CHEERED FOR TEN MINUTES. United Press Association — LONDON, March 12. A Karlsruhe message says that 70 special trains helped to amass a crowd of 100,000 at Karlsruhe, the garrison town nearest to the French border, to hear He A- Hitler’s fust speech in his campaign in support of his peace plan. Continuous cheering for 10 minutes necessitated sounding a bugle command for silence. Herr Hitler declared that he had endeavoured to nlstil reason into Gelman relations with foreign countries. There was no reason to try to suppress the individuality of any nation. .He passionately appealed to the nations for mutual regard as a believer in the brotherhood and neighbourship of nations. France and Germany must he on an absolutely equal footing. As the first essential there must be understanding and reconciliation. He would rather build the workman’s home than provide the cost of a gun. If others thought they could hinder Germany s progress they would find the Germans ready to resist. They, had once solemnly signed a pact in evil times, binding them to leave one frontier defenceless. So long as the other side lespected the pact Germany was ready to abide by it, but the pact had been betrayed. Germany had no intention or attacking France or Poland. Compared with the rest of the world Germanv was a haven of peace. None more desired peace. She wanted nothing from other nations and wished for nothing better than to take out a patent for national socialism. She cud not desire to export it. After a tirade against Communism, Herr Hitler proceeded- “I have drawn the only possible conclusion from the France-Soviet Pact by re-establishing our sovereignty. My offer of peace is the greatest that could have been made by a . German. There will not always be a man able to offer peace a such a period. I hope the world has now realised that I am no superficial nonsense-talker. I have made no offer that cannot he combined with my honour. I have not usurped my office, but I hold it in trust from the German people, to whom I now appeal, hoping the hour has come when Germans wil be accepted into the brotherhood of nations as equals. We shall die bu Germany must live. I assure you that nothing—absolutely nothing—will induce us to relinquish this regained sovereignty over the Rhineland. A tornado of cheering ended with the “Horstwessel” song and “Deutschland Über Allies.”