GERMAN NOBILITY

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 90, 17 April 1934, Page 7

GERMAN NOBILITY

"TAINTED" BLOOD. Jewish Descent Traced Back To 1750. 200 EXPELLED FROM ORDER. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, April 10. As a consequence of the Marshal of Nobility requiring members of the Fellowship of Nobles to produce their family trees from 1750, 200 German aristocrats have been expelled from the fellowship. This is due to "tainted" Jewish blood. The fellowship comprises 13.000, and always imposed a mild Jewish bar, resulting in many German titled families not belonging to it.

NAZIS AND FASCISTS. Germany and Italy Scheme for Power in Austria. BRITISH OBSERVER'S VIEWS. LONDON, April 12. Mussolini, by forcing Dollfuss to crush the Socialists has achieved exactly the opposite from what was intended, as instead of maintaining Austrian independence, he reduced it to a shadow, owing to the impetus given the Nazis, writes the "Manchester Guardian" special correspondent.

Italy is barely able to maintain the Austrian Heimwehr, and is spending only a fraction of what Germany is discreetly spending on the Austrian Nazis, he adds.

If Germany is sufficiently strong to ward off international intervention, which it at present fears, the Nazis would seize power, ensuring an Aust.roGornian union. Nevertheless, Germany has not recovered sufficiently to finance rearmament enough to make her a great military power, and is now slowing the pace.

She may be able to disregard international treaties, but cannot disregard economic laws, the correspondent says.

However, the Nazis are confident and willing to wait, but it is doubtful whether Austria as a whole can wait, as she is increasing her ruin by expenditure on armies and armaments, while she has lost all her charm, gaiety, and kindliness which preserved her in days of even greater economic stress. The famous Austrian atmosphere has disappeared, leaving nothing to attract tourists except her scenery and art treasures.

It is doubtful, also, whether Austria call bo disarmed and pacified in order to permit better political and economic relations with her neighbours, also whether subversive Italo-German influences can be eliminated, enabling Austria to live a normal life before Germany decides to solve the Austrian problem in the German way, and even for Austria the German way will be bcttdr than no way.

HARD TO ATTAIN. VATICAN-NAZI PEACE. LONDON', April 12. Negotiations between the German Government and the Vatican to fill the numerous blanks in the draft Concordat will be resumed immediately in Rome, says the correspondent of "The Times."

Inquiries in reliable Vatican quarters reveal that no important new developments are expected in the near future. A solution is still difficult owing to the German Government's refusal either to approve or condemn a list of recognised Catholic associations drawn up by the Bishops under the Concordat, while the Vatican fears that grave disabilities will bo imposed upon Catholics if Germany insists on a complete separation of Nazi and Catholic organisations.

The report that the Pope is preparing to recall the Papal Nuncio from Berlin is deprecated, as he is not likely to take the initiative and break off relations.