GERMANS WANT TO BURY THE HATCHET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 7

GERMANS WANT TO BURY THE HATCHET.

PEACE WITH FRANCE. Reply by Thousands to Query by Hitler. GREAT NAZI DISPLAY. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, March 16. "Germans, do you want to bury the hatchet with France?" asked Herr Hitler of 25,000 hearers at the Exhibition Hall, and he received a deafening reply, "Yes. Yes." The crowd stood in flag-bedecked streets all day awaiting Herr Hitler's election address. Everyone cheered General Goering and General von Blornberg, Minister of Defence, en route to the Exhibition Hall. Special importance is attached to the occasion as the anniversary of the reintroduction of conscription. The local Nazi Governor, Herr Sprcnger, opened the proceedings, declaring that Germany stood solid behind Herr Hitler. The populace of the Rhineland had to live under the threat of foreign guns, but Germany had achieved all she had done by fighting and would continue to fight.

Every negro tribe had a right to selfdefence. Only Germany was not to have it. Herr Hitler, who spoke for 72 minutes, declared that the world must know that there was only <,one will and one faith in Germany which the Fuehrer expressed. He had not removed but simplified democracy. The world formerly valued education, birth and knowledge, but new principles of courage, sacrifice and unity must now be upheld. Every treaty originating in brute force, menace and oppression would only be briefly tolerated by history. Evils of Military Alliances. Herr Hitler, continuing, said:."Germany has concluded no military alliances. They only lead to ill defined commitments. Nevertheless, France, whom we cannot hinder, has concluded such alliances and must face the consequences. Germany will never recede from her claim to equality of sovereignty. "Any backward step would leave an impossible foundation and sow hatred. I go this way for the sake of Germany bc9ause any distress is better than a condition leading to fresh burdens. We are prepared for every reconciliation except one—to counter our honour." The meeting was marked by the customary band music, well-managed spotlighting and continuous applause.