EYES ON RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 299, 14 September 1936, Page 9

EYES ON RUSSIA

Hitler Covets Her Great . Wealth MINERALS AND WHEAT “Gigantic Country Ripe For Dissolution” Bv Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright (Received September 13. 7.30 p.m.) ■ Berlin, September 13. Significance in view of the “Drang Nach Osten” doctrine attaches to HenHitler’s references to Russia during several speeches at the Nureipburg gathering. He said if Germany possessed the mineral wealth of the Urals and Siberia, and the wheatfields of the Ukraine, she would, under the Nazi regime, swim in plenty instead «>f fighting for her'existenee. “Our.only prayer all these years has been for external and internal peace," .Herr Hitler continued. - “We shall build up qur Reich after our own ideas and not after those of the Bolshevik and the Jew. Should our enemies Once more dare to attack, they will be felled to the ground. We shall never hesitate to sacrifice our peace in order to put down disturbances of the peace, as the whole nation knows." These references recall his statements in his book, “Mein Karapf.” in which he says: “When we speak of new land we can think only of Russia. Fate itself seems to point a finger for us there. That gigantic country 1$ ripe for dissolution. The end of Jewish rule in Russia will be the end .of Russ’a as a State.” ANTI-RED CRUSADE Nazi Ear to the Ground (Received September 13, 7.30 p.m.) Nuremberg, September 12. Commenting on the anti-Russiun tirades of the Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg gathering, a personage of high position in both old and new Germany admitted to the London “Times” special correspondent that these w-ould have meant war within 24 hours in the days before 1914. How’ far the campaign would be allowed to go would depend to some extent on W’orld reaction to. yesterday’s outburst, but it would not be surprising if Herr Hitler brought his crusade of anti-Bolshevik fury to a crescendo w-ith some startling announcement. Germany’s first object, he says, Is to secure a weakening of the FrancoSoviet Fact. In any case, he hopes to win Britain’s adherence to a autiBolshevist crusade under German leadership. Thug financial and economic support might be ensured for Germany where other arguments failed. WOMAN’S FUNCTION .The Nazi. Standpoint : . I (Received September 13, 7 p.m.) Nuremberg, September 12. Obviously alluding to women soldiers In the Soviet Red Army, Herr Hitlei, addressing a Nazi women’s organisa tion, said: “We shall see there will not be detachments of hand-grenade girls, women sharpshooters and the like in Germany. From our standpoint the woman who rears children and thus safeguards the existence and future of our people has done more than any learned woman.” He ridiculed the view held abroad that the German woman was being treated as a slave. “What some people regard as a voke is held by others to be a blessing,” he said. “Nature acted wisely in allotting man the task of protecting the family and the nation." VIOLENT ATTACK Russia# Newspaper on Dr. Goebbels (Received September 13, 7 p.m.) London, September 12. The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” reports that the newspaper “/Pravda” violently attacks Dr. Goebbels, who is lame. The paper says: “This dwarf, with crooked legs and. enormous twisted caricature of a nose—a complete clinical specimen of the degenerate. We quite deliberately mention the loathsome appearance of this chief theoretician of German Fascism. this apostle of the purity of the German race.” PERSECUTION OF JEWS 83,500 Leave Germany Since Advent of Nazis Berlin, September 11. About 83,500 Jews have left Germany since the Nazi Party came into power jn 1933. according to a Jewish publication. An additional 2000 Jews have changed their religion. Addressing members of the medical profession, the Reich medical leader, Dr. Wagner, described semi-Jews and quarter-Jews as a mongrel race which was biologically and politically undesirable and should be extinguished us soon as possible. .SOUTH AFRICA ALARMED Cape Town, September 11. South Africa is greatly alarmed at the turn of events at Nuremberg. The “Cape Times” points out that every member of the Union Government in the past few years has clearly stated that South Africa cannot consider cession of South-West Africa or Tanganyika, and'says: “It is difficult to imagine, even on the widest grounds of world policy, how the South African view can be overridden.”