GERMAN UPHEAVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 7

GERMAN UPHEAVAL.

OUTCOME OF 'PARTY POLITICS' BUSINESS FIRM'S LETTER. The nature of the political change in Germany and the effect which it will have upon Germany's relations with her neighbours are discussed in a letter received by an Auckland firm from its business connections in Germany. The letter, like others received in New Zealand recently, is written primarily to discount the accounts of the persecution of Jews 111 Germany. The writer asserts that "deplorable incidents" occurred in the first few. days only, and that Jews abroad, especially in Poland, did their friends a bad service by starting "propaganda." It was to counteract the propaganda that the Hitler Government ordered the boycott of Jewish store?, "calculating that prominent German Jews would influence their friends outside the frontiers to prevent the further outspread of false rumours."

The writer, referring to the alarm created in other countries by the Hitler Government's policy, says: "Had the influential position of the Left parties continued in our country, we would have failed to be a reliable partner for the other nations. . . . The Left parties having lost tlieir ground, and the Centra parties, in consequence of their heavy losses caused by the war, and the succeeding inflation not being strong enough

. . . to block the Communist advance, it was the extreme Eight that had to take the leadership, and now tries to reform the country according to their ideas and principles. It is not the intention to regain power by arms. Everybody in Germany knows this is impossible, considering the huge armies standing round our country, but the new Government has the faith to be able to re-establisli the German dignity and honour by peaceful manners."

Fo- the deplorable statc of the country in the last ten years the writer blames "party politics," and says Germans believe that Hitler's "national concentration" will bo the most effective way to overcome the depression.