NAZI AIMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 9

NAZI AIMS

RALLY PROCLAMATION

SPEECHES OF HITLER

A JOURNALS COMMENTS

(From "Tile Post's" Representative.) LONDON, September 6.

The meaning of the Nazi rally at Nuremberg, it was explained in a proclamation which opened the congress, was to bind the leaders and the led yet more closely together, to strengthen one and all in their belief in ultimate victory, and to impart a great spiritual and psychological impulse for the continuation of the fight. In the proclamation Herr Hitler celebrated the triumph of his party. "A miracle has taken place in Germany. What we hope^for in the long years of our fight, what we^all believed in our hearts, what we were ready to make every sacrifice for, eveji life itself— that has now become reality. It-is a special joy to know that the overwhelming majority o£> the German people stands with us iff true fidelity to the new Government," he proclaimed. "It is beautiful and advantageous to know that the power is in one's hands, but more beautiful and" advantageous to be able to call the love and affection of a nation one's #wn." RErfiBENCE TO THE JEWS. Eeferring to the Jews, he stated: "If the great historian Mommscn described the Jews as an clement of decomposition, then this decomposition is already in. an advanced stage in Germany." And he declared that "it is one of the most important tasks of the movement to fight the destroyers of the German people's power of resistance." He emphasised tho Socialist side of the party's doctrine when he declared: "It is neither logicalfihior moral not just in the long run to take part of the fruits of their industry from those who work for tMte maintenance of those who do not work. . . "Nobody has the moral right to demand that others should Work in order that he may be spared from work, but each has the right to domand that the State shall find ways and means to let each have work." On another occasion the Nazi leader said: "Germany does not need another war to re-establish her military honour. For four and a' half years our armies resisted bravely the attempts of twenty nations to defeat one. That was honour and glory enough. Our dishonour was brought on us at home. That dishonour has now been wiped out by the national revolution." OVER WHOM THE VICTORY? Commenting on Herr Hitler's speeches, "The Times" asks, "Against what is the struggle to continue? Over whom will be the victory! "Those are the questions which foreigners still dubiously ask themselves. The proclamation proceeded with a vehement attack on tho Jews and a caustic condemnation of the democratic 'system. But in those respects surely the Nazis have already completed their inglorious triumphs. The unhappy Jews of Germany, with tho exception of the smaller traders, are herded in concentration camps, or deprived of their means of livelihood, often forbidden or unable to leave the country, reduced to penury, and cruelly confronted with starvation. There is not much more 'victory' to bo won over them. And of democratic institutions hardly a trace remains. Popular Legislatures xexist only in shadow form. The right of assembly and of free speech is restricted to proved Nazis. There is not liberty of speech or of thought. The ballot-box is derided as a cowardly device for exercising anonymous pressure; free elections are stigmatised as a form of national licence; tho right of criticism was dismissed in the proclamation as a mere slogan, for whicn"Nazism would substitute an 'inner unity of thought and desire.' , "The German people aiust adopt tho political philosophy whiwa suits them best; Hut to foreign observers, at any rate in this country, a 'unity of thought' which is attained- by bludgeoning different views out of the heads of those who hold thorn is not an 'inner' unity, but an artificial and worthless standardisation, exacting compliance not from conviction but from te#or or from calculated* selfinterest." MILITARY PROWESS. Regarding the remark that Germany had no need of rehabilitation ou the battlefield, for there she had never lost her prestige, the "Times" says: "That is a sentiment with which, former opponents in the field will not •refuse to concur; and Herr Hitler may be trying gradually to wean his followers from the idea,^o plainly inculcated in his earlier™ writings and speeches, that only by military prowess could that position be regained for Germany which she had lost in 1918. Nobody, in fact, has praised tho military virtues more enthusiastically than the present German Chancellor, and his disciples are still preaching them." The writer goes on to mention the book of a Nazi professor who has recently been appointed to a Chair of Military Science. "He propounds 'the high ethical value of war'; and would have every child encouraged to play 'robber and soldier' games and have their minds directed into military channf?,s from the age of- six upwards. He moreover advocates the study of bacteriological warfare, although Germany is a party with other countries to the Convention of 1925, which forbids it. The Nazi leader also said at Nuremberg that it was more honourable for one land to hold out for four and a half years against superior odds than for twenty countries to conquer a single nation. This salvo for German military honour will not bo grudged to him. But it has to be recorded* that he prefaced theso relatively pacific declarations by saying the world must not see in the Nazi revolution the expression of a desire to win new laurels on the battlefield. Was tho wholo of Jihrs passage just a calculated effort to impress foreign opinion? It would not be fair to niako that assumption; but the outside world is bound to judge the leaders of new Germany by their policy rather than by their professions;' and according to that criterion it cannot yet feel reassured." the Commercial Trusts Act at tho present time by those who were suffering through loss of business and profit, and who desired to take steps to prevent price cutting. MATTER TO BE INVESTIGATED. Mr. Masters said that he did not believe in people having to trade at a loss, but at' the same time they coxild not get away from tho feet that those who desired to have tho Act repealed wished to bring about a stato of affairs which ivould raisat prices. Ho agreed that there migliPbo injustices and hardships in individual cases, and he would be pleased to have the mutter investigated in order to see if something could bo done. Sir Francis said that in view of the j Minister's statement he did not desire: to proceed any further with the Bill,! yhkh was withdrawn, j