AGAINST THE NAZIS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 41, 27 November 1937, Page 11

AGAINST THE NAZIS.

GERMAN FREEDOM PARTY. The “Gestapo” (the German Secret Police) are making a special effort to unearth the “German Freedom Party,” says the “Manchester Guardian’s” special correspondent. About this party it is impossible, for reasons of secrecy, to give any details, but it is, broadly speaking, a loose association of Germans who are trying to a’ally German public opinion against the tyrannical domestic policy and the warlike foreign policy of the Nazi dictatorship. The party belongs neither to the political Left nor to the Right, though mos tof its members are of the middle and upper classes and belong to the former Conservative, Centre, and Liberal Parties. The party issues manifestos from time to time that find a wide circulation in Germany and are eagerly read. Until recently they were sent to the correspondents of the foreign newspapers in Berlin—one of the reasons for the polemics of, the German press against the British correspondents was that the British press quoted the manifestos of the “Freedom Party.” The vigilance of the “Gestapo” is now such 1 that the party is no longer able to supply the foreign correspondents in Berlin with its manifestos. The agents of the “Gestapo” abroad are also trying to track down those of the “Freedom Party” who • are themselves residing abroad. The Nazis and War. The party has now issued a manifesto (the twentieth) which is being circulated in Germany. It is an impassioned polemic against the Nazi dictatorship. It declares: Only war can explain what the Nazi regime has achieved in the years of its domination and, what is worse, only war can justify what has happened and what is yet to happen. War is the name of the recipe with which Hitler has brought German trade and industry to seeming efflorescence. War is the magic spell that has abolished unemployment. War is the only original idea in the whole of the so-called reconstruction carried put by the Nazis .... War is the remorseless consequence of the dictatorship . . . Look at Abyssinia, Spain and China. Why are our sons being killed in Spain ? Why are our guns firing on Spaniards Why are omr bombs destroying Spanish towns and Spanish lives? What harm have the Spaniards done to us? What German interests in Spain justify the shedding of German blood ? None at all ... . The manifesto ends with an appeal: Let those who want peace join our movement. Those who want freedom for the sake of peace are on our side. Let those who would overcome war and National Socialist tyranny through freedom join the German Freedom Party.—For peace, freedom, „and justice.—The German Freedom Party.