AN OVERTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 7

AN OVERTURE.

GERMANY PREPARES. Will Not Be Second Abyssinia, Says Dr. Goebbels. . NEW ARMY FOR PEACE ONLY. United Press Association. —Copyright. BERLIN, January 26. i "We are only playing an overture, l like one of Wagner's, with many leading motives," declared the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, in the presence of 10,000 people in the Kliineland Hall. "We could have told our story of the army in 1933, but had we done so other armies would 5 probably have marched in. , "One informs the world only when there is an accomplished fact, when [ cannons are behind it," he continued, i "In the company of certain neighbours 3 wo think of the proverb, 'double-sewn : is stronger.' We do not want to be a ; second Abyssinia and have, civilisation brought to us by aeroplanes and bombs. "If we want an army by a certain j date we need not think the people will shrink from a food shortage. Tj} e army is not for war, but for peace. See that , the worker works for peace." Efficient Food Supply. \ The Nazi Minister of Agriculture, ■ Heir Darrc, frankly admits in an inter- . view in the newspaper "Nachtausgabe" s that he is organising German agriculi ture for the emergency of war. * "Germany lost the World War because of insufficient food supplies," he states, "yet in 1914 Germany had a larger productive agricultural area than ' she has to-day. "My task, therefore, was to secure ' Germany's food supplies, in spite of the ' loss of important territories, and I have [ succeeded in extraordinary time. We have done our utmost to make a repetition of the 191'8 catostrophe impossible." J Herr Darre says lie doe 6 not think i Germany should live entirely auto- " cratically, but German 'national policy 1 demands a united agricultural organi- ! sation for the coming of danger. | RELIGIOUS STRIFE. 1 CATHOLIC PASTORAL LETTER. ; " (Received 2.30 p.m.) 1 BERLIN, January 26. A pastoral letter, adopted by bishops ! at the Fulda conference, was read from the pulpits of all Catholic churches in Germany. It forbids Catholics to : peruse newspapers or books advocating . neo-paganism, strongly condemns the . new religion and forbids Catholics to participate in training camps where ; anti-Christian ideas are advocated. I