ORDER OUT OF CHAOS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 9

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS

THE HITLER REGIME

'GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED*

(By Telegraph.) (Special t» the "Evening Post") DTJNEDIN, *This Day. Mr. Charles Martin, a well-know* Dunedin musician, who returned some days ago after two years' study aa England and on the Continent, speaking of modern Germany, said that the whole German attitude had been grossly misrepresented and exaggerated. Beally, ho eaid, it was an attitude of absolute, friendliness, but for »m« reason the suggestion of danger of ,th« martial element was being fostered by, English politicians and the Press. Mr. Martin said he had found newspaper; stories which seemed to vie with each other in sensationalism unreliable. When he proposed-to visit Germany, -last year he was almost deterred by, loud English headlines of "Civil War Imminent in Germany." When he did co over there ho found thit whilethere was a state of chaos it was not very marked. " .' : • • Since Hitler had come into power; n« said, Communism had been wiped out. It had been undermining the Germaa Constitution and creating that chaotia state, and Hitler, who was a misrepresented man, had got to the root of the trouble. No doubt he had: made mistakes, but his ideals were ignored and his shortcomings exaggerated. When the first Jewish boycott was carried out Hitler realised that be had made a mistake, and he cancelled the second boycott. Of course, it was difficult to understand the subsequent persecution of the Jews. „ . Mr.- Martjn discounted, any ( taJJt of war in connection-with, Germany. . She I was still muddled. She had no money, armies, or allies, and it was Hitler who was restoring order out of that chaos. The nation knew it had someone to look to, and had confidence and faith, in him. Mr. Martin said he #as confident that in a few years' time W» would regard the results of the Hitler regime as we regard Fascism today. The fears that the creation of the Storm Troops had aroused Mr. Martin also deprecated. They were more or less a form of special police necessary to establish order, he said. Germany was trying to-forget the past) England, through her politicians and Press, was not,