NAZIS IN LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 237, 6 October 1932, Page 9

NAZIS IN LONDON.

ENGLISH HEADQUARTERS.

NO SIDES IN LOCAL POLITICS HIKING PARTIES AND SONGS. (By a Special Correspondent.) LONDON, September 4. Adolf Hitler has headquarters in London as well as in Munich and Berlin. In a large ground floor room of a house in a pleasant West End square, Nazi* meet every evening, give iheir salute, sing their songs, talk and read their newspapers. Only German is spoken, and the association makes it clear that it has no concern whatever with English politics. In fact one of the rules says: "Members must remember that they are the , guests of England. Nothing must be done which appears to be taking eidei in English politics."

At 4 o'clock each afternoon the room is unlocked and members of the London branch begin to drop in. • Over . th<.mantelpiece is the Hitlerite slogan: "Heil, Hitler!" in white letters on a red ground. In a corner is the Nazi bannei in red, white and black—-the colours of Imperial Germany—with the Swastikx encircled in the centre. On the walls are four huge photographs of Herr Hitler, and there is also a Nazi poster, issued during the recent German elections, showing three stern young ni>"' announcing that "National Socialism is the organised will of the people."

On Sundays the branch goes hikina - usually in Kent—and sings Nazi eon.2" along the English roads. The strength of these hiking parties sometimes reaches 80. The secretary of the bt&ncn is Graf von Recke, a pleasant-faced young man of 24.

In connection with the operation of the Summer Time Act, the Railway Department makes an announcement in thie Leue regarding the express from WelItagton, "arriving Auckland- on Sunday morning) next.