FATEFUL DAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1934, Page 7

FATEFUL DAYS

subsistence level in- order that as -many as possible miglt' share in whatevor work was available. '- • -"

Dr. Goebbels spoke sternly of the" producers and capitalists who- 'had made no sacrifices while their profits and dividends had increased. Herr Hitler had already warned them. They were warned again tonight. 'Dr. Goebbels hinted at coming legislation which would further readjust the relations between capital and labour.'

He also spoke on disarmament and said that Germany wag ready to -cooperate in any scheme for disarmament based on the' principle of equality. Germany's wish was work and bread at home, and honour, frcedoin, and equality abroad.

Referring -fo tho Roman Catholic Press, he said that certain newspapers which, before the revolution, had done little or nothing to "rid the country of class war" were now endangering *tho peace of the community by Teviving religious differences. They should let every man find happiness in his own fashion, ho added, instead of accusing the National Socialists of' "heathenism." They alone had saved tho Church from Bolshevism. FRONTIER TROOPS. Accusations and counter accusations come from France and Germany. According to the Strasbourg correspondent of the "Echo de Paris," detachments of Nazi Storm Troops and Brown Shirts are being concentrated in-the.areas to the north and east of the Saar territpry in readiness to intervene in the event of political disturbances in France; ' This is denied in Berlin. Nobody in Germany, states an official communique, thinks of taking advantage of the difficulties of a neighbouring country—"despite certain experiences which Germany has had in similar cueumstances." ' The communique 'then goes <in to saythat -certain French reports are such as to.arouso alarm in Germany. According to the "Matin," for instance, further fortresses ■•■ along the eastern ■frontier of Franco have now' been manned. Moreover, in the" neighbourhood of Neunhofen, nearly one and a half miles from the German frontier in the Palatinate, the men actually in the fortress have been reinfotced "by reserve garrisons lying further back. "INTIMIDATION" IN THE SAAR. The question of the Saar is once more to the forefront (writes the Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph"). Mr. G. G. Knox, British .head of tho 'League Governing Commission, • circulated a communication directly accusing the local political Nazi organisation, described tas tho Deutsche Front, of attempting' to intimidate the inhabitants. In this letter, addressed to all members of tho Council, of the League, Mr. Knox states that the Deutsche Front has conducted a house-to-house canvass of th'o inhabitants, "inviting"—under pressure—their adherence to tho policy of wholehearted incorporation with Nazi, Germany. i Mr. Knox adds that at tho game time agents of tho Deutsche Front visited all the principal factories and mines to intimidate the workers into making similar declarations. It is announced hero today that the committee of three dealing with the preparations for the Saar plebiscite next year will meet in Borne on Monday under -the chairmanship of Baron Aloisi.