GERMAN RIGHTS ASSERTED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21733, 16 March 1936, Page 11

GERMAN RIGHTS ASSERTED

VERSAILLES TREATY ATTACKED HERR HITLER’S SPEECH PEACEFUL INTENTIONS CLAIMED (united tress association—copyright.) (Received March 15, 7.30 p.m.) MUNICH, March 14. All Germany flocked to Munich to hear Herr Hitler’s speech. The Fuhrer, in a brown uniform and wearing a brown leather overcoat, arrived at 4.30 p.m., accompanied by his personal adjutant, Herr Brueckner. Herr Hitler drove to a hotel to complete the details of his speech. The Ministry of Propaganda had explained that the invitation of the League Council reached the Chancellery after Herr Hitler’s departure, making impossible an immediate reply, which is now expected, on March 15. Special trains brpught 20.000 storm troopers, Black Guards, members of the Labour Corps, and party members, who 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 oaths: “Never to waver from the Fuhrer’s side, to accompany him in happiness and struggle, to work and sacrifice not for ourselves, but for sacred Germany.” . • Bands entertained the crowds with exclusively military music throughout the afternoon. 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 around the exhibition hall, in which Herr Hitler’s rostrum was erected. Ten thousand people were in the hall. Hollywood Tould not have eclipsed the setting in which Herr Hitler opened his election campaign, Bengal flares and artillery salutes marking his progress. Listeners outside shivered in the cold while Herr Wagner spoke to fill in the time until the arrival of Herr Hitler, who was detained for an hour by conversations with Herr von Ribbentrop (Commissioner for Disarmament) and Herr R. Hess, about the league council’s invitation. Herr Wagner paid a tribute to the gathering of 300.000 people as the mightiest seen in Munich. He praised Herr Hitler as Germany’s saviour. Herr Hitler was received with a roar of cheering when Herr Wagner presented him with a unanimous resolution conveying the sentiment embodied in his speech. Herr Hitler called on'his hearers for the third time to declare their faith in the Third Reich, and to vote x to show that he did not face the world alone.

A Champion for Germany “I have the whole nation behind me, and I have decided to hold the elections in this faith,” said Herr Hitler. “I will be Germany’s courageous champion, and I am not afraid to assume responsibility. I wish to regain for Germany respect in the world’s eyes. “I did what I did, not because I liked playing soldiers, but to restore the strength of the people. The most peaceful animal needs claws in order not to be attacked. No flattery or threats will induce me to abandon my rights. The world must receive Germany as a partner and 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, or to gain her ends by bloodshed. We have another way. Six hundred thousand births yearly mean the rejuvenation of the German people. We must leave the whole colonial question to commonsense. Feeling Against France “We shall never agree to the division of the nations by the Versailles Treaty into good or bad; we will not let ourselves be treated as negro slaves; we will not tolerate being sent from one international court to another when right is on our side. “The German Government signed the Locarno Pact, which determined that whoever was offended should appear before the League " of Nations, which could determine the aggressor. France embodied in the pact two other treaties —with Poland and Czechoslovakia. The pact stipulated that a district inhabited by 14,000,000 Germans should be deprived entirely of. German sovereignty. We put up with it* for so long ior the sake oi -peace. Therv the Franco-Soviet pact was passed and the Russo-Czechoslovak treaty was formulated. , “The Franco-Soviet treaty violated the Locarno Pact. If there should be war between France, Russia and Czechoslovakia 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 nationalstate, but an imperialistic Bolshevik state. If France became embroiled —as she may—in Bolshevism, Moscow would decide who was the aggressor in a conflict on Germany’s westei frontier. “Europe must be rebuilt on a new foundation if it, is to recover. We want peace with France. We do not interfere in the internal politics of other nations. They must respect ours. Deciding What is Just “Only God has the right to decide what is just. God’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, pur slogan being: Tor German freedom and German equality.’ Millions will then bind their wills with mine, allowing me to represent German rights—not to throw down the gauntlet to others.” Herr Hitler concluded his speech amid bursts of cheers and singing.