Mr Krupp’s Visit

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28531, 10 March 1958, Page 3

Mr Krupp’s Visit

Sir, —There is a lot of dissatisfaction with Mr Krupp’s visit to New Zealand. Most opposition comes from the unions’ members who were only going to school in 1914-1918. What do they know about it? Every decent thinking man must have in mind that Mr Krupp was fighting for his country as we were all doing. They forget that England and America were trying to beat him. I think the main objection was that Mr Krupp was a war prisoner but he served his time

and learned his lesson. Now we are all allies. So why cry down a good man like this? Hoping this will soften down some of these 19 and 20-year-old unionists. —Yours etc., 1914-1918. March 5, 1958.

Sir, —I viewed with considerable relief the commendable attitude taken by Aiderman Hefferman, Mayor of Lithgow, to Mr Krupp’s visit to Australia. I felt particularly outraged by the uncivilised and vicious antics of socialists and kindred parties in our sister country towards a man recognised as the owner, of the most efficient and industrious factory concern in the world. Before the Mr Krupp had instituted the first welfare organisation of its kind within an industrial concern, and his popularity was so great that on his release from prison former workers in his plant flocked from all parts of the world to Germany. I wonder what the attitude of these people would have been if we had been forced to welcome here one of the greatest of war criminals, Stalin, responsible ultimately, for the murders of Katyn Forest and Warsaw. Having been punished, Mr Krupp should be welcomed back into society.—Yours, etc., CONSERVATIVE. March 9, 1958.