GERMAN RIGHTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 131, 16 March 1936, Page 5

GERMAN RIGHTS

CLAIMS MADE BY HERR HITLER. ATTACK ON VERSAILLES TREATY PEACEFUL INTENTIONS. (United Press Association —Copyright) BERLIN, March 15. All Germany flocked to Munich to hear Herr Hitler’s speech. The Fuhrer, .in a brown uniform and wearing a brown leather overcoat, arrived at 4.30 p.m., accompanied by his personal adjutant, Herr Brueckner. Herr Hitler drove to a hotel to complete the details of his speech. The Ministry of Propaganda had explained that the invitation of the League Council reached the Chancellery after Herr Hitler’s departure, making impossible an immediate reply, which is now expected on March 15. Special trains brought 20,000 Storm Troopers, Black Guards, members of the Labour Corps, and party members, who were distributed about the city in readiness for the evening’s mammoth parade, a- striking feature of which was the general repetition of the holy oaths “Never to waver from the Fulirer’s side, to accompany him in happiness and struggle, to work and sacrifice not for ourselves, but for sacred Germany.” Bands entertained the crowds with exclusively military music throughout the afternoon. The town was plastered with posters and banners urging demonstrations for peace with honour, against jingoism and Bolshevism in loyalty to Hen* Hitler. T\vo hundred loud-speakers studded the mile-square meadow around the exhibition hall, in which Herr Hitler s rostrum was erected. Ten thousand people were in the hall. Hollywood coidd rot have eclipsed the setting in which Ilerr Hitler opened his election campaign, Bengal flares and artillery salutes marking his progress. Listeners outside shivered in the cold while Herr Wagner spoke to fill in the time until the arrival of Herr Hitler, who was detained for an hour by conversations with Herr von Ribbentrop (Commissioner for Disarmament) and Herr 11. Hess, about the League Council’s invitation. Hen Wagner paid a tribute to the gathering of 300,000 people as the mightiest seen in Munich. He praised Herr Hitlei as Germany’s saviour. Herr Hitler was received with a roar of cheering when Herr Wagner presented him with a unanimous resolution conveying the sentiment embodied in his speech. Herr Hitler called on his hearers for the third time to declare their faith in the Third Reich, and to vote to show that he did not face the world alone. A Champion for Germany. “I have the whole nation behind me, and I have decided to hold the elections in this faith,” said Herr Hitler. “I will be Germany’s courageous champion, and I am not afraid to assume responsibility. I wish to regain for Germany respect in the world’s eyes. “I did what I did, not because I liked playing soldiers, but to restore the strength of the people. The most peaceful animal needs claws in oidei not to be attacked. No flattery or threats will induce me to abandon my rights. The world must receive Germany as a partner and not as a slave. I go the way which Fate has shown me, with the certainty of a somnambulist. “Germany does not desire to wage eternal war, or to gain, her ends by bloodshed. We have another way. Six hundred thousand births yearly mean the rejuvenation of the German people. We must leave the whole colonial question to common-sense. Feeling Against France. “We shall never agree to the division of the nations' by the Versailles Treaty into good or bad j we \\ ill not let ourselves he treated as negro slaves; we will not tolerate being sent from one international court to another when right- is on our side. “The German Government signed the Locarno Pact, which determined that whoever was offended should appear before the League of Nations, which could determine the aggressor. France embodied in the pact two other treaties—with Poland and Czechoslovakia. The pact stipulated that a district inhabited by 14,000,000 G'ermans should be deprived entirely of German sovereignty. We put up or , s ° long for the sake of peace. Then the Franco-Soviet pact was passed and the Russo-Czechoslovalc treaty was foimulat “The Franco-Soviet treaty violated the Locarno Pact. If there should be war between France, Russia and Czechoslovakia, on the one side and Germany, on the other, who won <• _ to impose sanctions against such * combination of forces? Russia is no a national .State, but an imperialistic Bolshevik State. If France became embroiled—as she may—in Bolshevism, Moscow would decide who was the aggressor in a conflict on Germany s western frontier. “Europe must he rebuilt on a new foundation it it is to recover. A\o wan* peace with France. We do not mte fere in the internal politics of oth. nations. They must respect ours. Deciding What is Just. “Only God lias the right to decide what is just. God’s voice is the people’s voice. You, my German compatriots, are .therefore the only ones who have the right to judge my actions “Your verdict on me will be determined on March 29, our slogan being: ‘ For German freedom and German equality.’ Millions will then bind their wills with mine, allowing me to represent German rights—not to throw down the gauntlet to othois. Herr Hitler concluded his speech amid bursts of cheering and singing.