WHAT GERMANY HAS LOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 6

WHAT GERMANY HAS LOST.

Nothing astonishes me more than the genuine inability of Germane generally to understand in the least degree the feeling the actions of the Nazi party have aroused in this and other countries (writes "Janus" in the "Spectator"). They harp on the word revolution and seem to think that ought to end the matter. What has, in fact, happened is that Ilerr Hitler, having been' appointed Chancellor without a Parliamentary majority, forcibly monopolised all means of publicity during his election campaign, and beim; returned to power by virtue of his alliance with the Nationalists, whom he is now steadily throwing over, entered on a fierce campaign of repression against Jews, Socialist? and Communists— a campaign marked by hundreds of thousands of individual outrages any one of which would have made a public sensation in a country like Great Britain. To-day the Press is dragooned, and freedom of public speech has disappeared. The result is that, as Mr. Walter Lippmann! quite the most influential publicist in the United States, points out, Germany has inevitably regained in America the unenviable reputation she enjoyed during the later days of Kaiserdom, and lost all the friends the new democratic Germany after the war made for herself. That, of course, is as ti lie 01 ti uet of this country. Public sympathy has swung sharply away from Germany and towards France. Nothing is more significant than that the "Manchester Guardian" most Germanophile of all daily papers in Great Britain, is how banned in Germany, as a result of its journalistic honesty in describing the situation in Germany as it is. °