DUTY OF INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 13

DUTY OF INDUSTRY

GERMAN SELF-SUFFICIENCY'

( SPEECH BY HERR HITLER

(Received December 21, 10.40 a.m.)

LONDON, December 20.

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states that General Goering and his secretary were in conference with leading representatives of German industry regarding the1 four-year, selfsufficiency plan when Herr Hitler unexpectedly arrived and made a speech exhorting industry to fulfil its duties under the plan. He explained that he had entrusted General Goering with the execution of the plah because for General Goering the word "impossible" did not exist.

It is reported that the purpose of the conference was to impress on industrialists the military urgency/of the plan owing to lack of confidence with which the Government's whole economic policy is viewed in business circles generally.

RATIONING OF FOOD

NEW YEAR GREETING

BERLIN, December 19,

Christmas is likely to be the last opportunity for some time for Germans to enjoy unrestricted feasting. Herr Hitler's New Year greeting takes the form Of huge crimson placards displayed throughout Germany instruct? ing housewives to register their requirements of butter, lard, margarine, dripping, suet, and oils. This is the first step in fulfilment of the fouryear self-sufficiency plan.

Rationing will begin on January 1. Nazi officials are at present taking a house-to-house census in order to discover the needs of each family. The public are most perturbed, recalling the rigours attending the wartime issue of food cards.

It is understood that bakers have been instructed not to sell bread before it is 24 hours, old, because fresh bread does not satisfy hunger as stale bread does.