GERMAN OUTCRY

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 7

GERMAN OUTCRY

SHARP CRITICISM.

BRITISH CANDOUR.

Chamberlain's Attack Causes

Resentment.

OLD PRUSSIAN SPIRIT,

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 14. In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Austen Chamberlain made a trenchant attack on Germany. He said: "Frankly, I view the present situation in Europe with grave anxiety. "We cannot pretend to conceal the state of uncertainty in which the world has been left concerning what was actually proposed or agreed to in Rome or what passed in Germany. This seems to me to render this a singularly inopportune moment to talk about a revision of treaties." Amid cheers Sir Austen asked: "What is this new spirit of German nationalism ? It is the worst of the old Prussian Imperialism with added savagery, pride and cxclusiveness. No subjects not of pure Nordic birth are to have equality of rights or citizenship in the nation to which they belong. "Are you going to discuss revision of treaties with a Government like that?" (Loud cheers.) "Will you dare to put another Pole under the heel of such a Government as long as Germany is affected by this narrow, exclusive, spirit, which says it is a crime to be in favour of peace, a crime to be a Jew? That is not the Germany to which we can afford to make concessions. Before you can disarm or urge others to disarm "you must see a Germany whose mind has turned to peace, and who will use equality of status not to menace the safety of others." Mr. Winston Churchill said that so surely as Germany acquired military equality while her grievances were unredressed and while she was in her present temper, so surely would they be within measurable distance of renewal of a general European war. Energetic Protest. The German Government has instructed its Ambassador in London, Herr von Hoesch, to lodge an energetic protest with the British Government in view of the anti-German statements in the House of Commons. There is a strong outcry in the German Press regarding the speeches. The "Allgcmeine Zeitung" believes that the German Government will sharply rebuke falsehoods, but adds that common sense and historical experience prove that foreign political considerations should not be neglected. The "Allgcmeine Zeitung" points out that the members of Parliament were unfair since they did not reproach Poland for the anti-German a,nd unlawful brutal violence in that country. Awaiting Liberation. About 15,000 armed men, including representatives of the Reichswehr (Army), the Stahllielms (Steel Helmets) and the Nazi Storm Troops, attended the unveiling of a monument at Koenigsblick, on the German-Polish frontier. The inscriptions on the monument recorded the names of the former German cities "awaiting liberation." The local Governor in his unveiling speech said he hoped the monument would strengthen the German determination "that what we lost must not remain lost." A number of prominent Jewish professors at German universities, including the economist, Professor Bonn, also Professors Lederer and Kelsen, have been granted leave of absence which is tantamount to dismissal. All professors and teachers in the universities and high schools will be given a questionnaire calculated to reveal whether they are of purely Aryan origin. If not, they will bo dismissed. The German Press Association has expelled Jews and Marxists from its ranks.