RIGHT AND MIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 64, 16 March 1936, Page 7

RIGHT AND MIGHT.

ADDRESS BY HITLER.

Germany Demands Equality

Among Nations.

UNAFRAID OP CONSEQUENCES

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 12 noon.) MUNICH, March 15,

All Germany flocked to Munich to hear Herr Hitler's speech. Wearing a brown uniform and a brown leather overcoat, he arrived at 4.30 p.m., accompanied by his personal adjutant, Herr H. Brueckner, and was welcomed by the Bavarian Nazi leader, lierr Adolf Wagner, and the head of the Black Guards, Herr H. Himmler.

Herr Wagner paid a tribute to the gathering of 300,000 people as the mightiest ever seen in Munich, and lauded Herr Hitler as the saviour of Germany. On his appearance Herr Hitler was received with a roar of cheering, and Herr Wagner presented to him a unanimous resolution conveying the sentiment he had embodied in his speech.

Herr Hitler called on his hearers for the third time to declare their faith in the Third Reich, and vote to show that he had not faced the world alone. "I have the whole nation behind me, and have decided to hold the elections in this faith," said the Fuehrer. "I will be Germany's courageous champion, not afraid to assume responsibility. "I wish to regain for Germany respect in the eyes of the world. I did what I did, not because I liked playing at soldiers, but to restore strength to the people. The most peaceful animal needs claws in order not to be attacked. Germany As Partner, Not As Slave. "Neither flattery nor threats will induce me to abandon my rights. The world must receive Germany as a partner, not as a slave. I go the way which Fate has shown me, with the certainty of a somnambulist. Germany does not desire to wage eternal war, nor to gain her ends by bloodshed. We have another way. Six hundred thousand births a year mean the rejuvenation of the German people. "We must leave the whole colonial question to common sense," Herr Hitler continued. "I shall never agree to the division of the nations by the Versailles Treaty into good and bad. We will not let ourselves be treated as negro slaves, and will not tolerate being sent from one International Court to another t when right is on our side. "The German Government signed the Locarno pact, which determined that whoever was an offender should appear before the' League, which could determine the aggressor. France embodied in the pact two other treaties, with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. The pact stipulated that a district inhabited by 14,000,000 Germans should be deprived entirely of German sovereignty, but we put up with it so long for the sake of peace. Then the Franco-Soviet pact was parsed, and the Russo-Czecho-Slovak Treaty was formulated. The FrancoSoviet Treaty violated Locarno. Europe Must Be Rebuilt. "If there should be war between France, Russia and Czecho-Slovakia on the one side and Germany on the other, who would dare to impose sanctions against such a combination-of forces? Russia is not a national State, but an imperialistic Bolshevik State. If France become embroiled —as she may—in Bolshevism, Moscow would decide who the aggressor was in a conflict on Germany's western frontier. "Europe must be rebuilt on a new foundation if it is to recover. We want peace with France. We will not interfere in the internal politics of other nations, but they must respect ours. "Only God has the right to decide what is just. Gol's voice is the people's voice. You, my German compatriots, are therefore the only ones who have the right to judge my actions. Your verdict on me will be determined on March 29, the slogan being: 'For German Freedom and German Equality.' Millions will then bind their wills with mine, allowing me to represent German rights, and not to throw down the gauntlet to others."

Herr Hitler concluded after repeated ovations, amid bursts of cheers and singing.

The Ministry of Propaganda explained yesterday that the League Council's invitation to Germany to be represented at the meeting in London had reached the Chancellery in Berlin after Herr Hitler's departure for Munich, precluding the giving of an immediate reply.

The big parade of Rhineland troops, which was intended to be held on Monday, has been abandoned. The troops will be merely inspected in their barracks. It seems possible that the cancelling of the parade may be regarded as a symbolical concession to French opinion. The parade had been planned on a grand scale, and several thousand troops from other garrisons beside Frankfort would have participated.

NAZI SHOWMANSHIP.

LAVISH DISPLAY AT MUNICH.

MUNICH, March 15. Special trains brought 20,000 Storm Troopers, Black Guards, men of the Labour Corps and party members to Munich for Herr Hitler's speech, and they were' distributed about the city in readiness for the evening's mammoth parade, a striking feature of which was the general repetition of the holy oath neve? to waver from the Fuehrer s side, to accompany him in happiness, struggle work and sacrifice, not for ourselves but for sacred Germany. Bands entertained the crowds with exclusively military music all the afternoon, and the town was plastered with posters and banners urging demonstrations for peace with honour, against jingoism and Bolshevism, in loyalty to Herr Hitler. , ~ , Two hundred loud-speakers studded the mile-square meadow surrounding the Exhibition Hall, accommodating 10,000 people, in which Herr Hitler's rostrum had been erected. Hollywood could not have eclipsed the setting m which Herr Hitler'opened his election campaign, Bengal flares and artillery salutes markw bis progress. The listeners outside SfvS/Ke bitter cold, while Herr Warner filled up the wait for Herr Hit ler who was detainpd for an hour by his conversations with Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop and Herr Hess, Herr Hitler s deputy, regarding the League Councils invitation.