NAZIS ANNOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 10

NAZIS ANNOYED.

WITH NETHERLANDS. Alleged "Insults" Condoned by Affianced Prince. PRESS PROTEST CAMPAIGN. United Press Association. —Copyright (Received 3 p.m.) BERLDf, January 1. General Goering's newspaper, the "National Zeitung," protests against a number of alleged insults to Germany accompanying preparations for the wedding of Princess Juliana of Holland and Prince Bernard Ton Lippe-Biesterfeld. It declares that Germans hare been victims of hostile demonstrations in Dutch towns because they displayed swastikas.

The paper also criticises Prince von Lippe-Biesterfeld because he agreed to the playing of a popular song on official occasions instead of the German national anthem. The German newspapers have now begun a concerted campaign against the Prince owing to the "insults." He is severely criticised for not protesting against such "slights to Germany." The Dutch Foreign Minister, Dr. de Graeff, has expressed regret to the German Foreign Office for an incident at The Hague when a swastika fla£ was torn down. The German Press is not satisfied with the apology and continues to attack both Holland and the Prince. The "Volkischcr Beobachter" says: "We do not demand to be loved in Holland but we forbid insults to our symbols of sovereignty." Holland Ignores Bad Feeling. The "National Zeitung" says: "If the Prince fails to protest he is no good German and if he has no feeling for the national honour he is no good Dutchman either^" The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" points out that the German Press entirely overlooks the fact that the Prince is already naturalised and has berome an officer of the Netherlands Army. A message from The Hague states that the alleged insults and demonstrations are described as pure imagination. It is emphasised that the Dutch have a most toward Germany, but Holland has taken the Prince to her heart for his own qualities. His German birth is not considered to be specially important. It is generally felt that Germany is annoyed simply because her hopes in regard to Nazi propaganda have been disappointed.