HITLER'S PROCLAMATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 11

HITLER'S PROCLAMATION

NO NEW POINTS

OLD PRINCIPLES REITERATED

(Received September 8, 10 a.m.) NUREMBERG, September 7.

' Herr Hitler's proclamation in opening the Nazi Congress did not contain anything new or sensational, but merely reiterated the old principles, including the claim for colonies. The whole audience of 20,000 picked Nazis stood as the Fuhrer entered the Congress hall heralded by a fanfare o trumpets. Herr Hitler's proclamation was read out by Herr Wagner, Governor of Bavaria. The proclamation declared that the four-year plan for economic self-suffi-ciency would be carried out, whatever the difficulties. Friendly relations with Italy were being strengthened, and the anti-Communist pact with Japan stood unshaken. "The agreement between Germany and Japan," it stated, "serves to secure co-operation for the defence of the civilised world against the attack now centred on Spain, but which tomorrow may be launched in the Far East or anywhere else." Herr Hitler said he hoped other nations would understand and strengthen this front in defence of ceace and' culture. The proclamation went on to con£rast the stability of Germany with falling wages and rising prices in the rest of the world, and added: "However, without colonies German space is inadequate to feed the nation." It was an unbearable thought that Germany year after year was dependent on good or bad seasons. The claim for colonies was merely dictated by economic distress. The congress is the occasion for a fresh outburst of anti-Semitism. Large pink posters throughout Germany announce a special issue of Julius Streicher's "Stunner," entitled "Bandit Race," in which the Jews are accused of originating the control of all the criminal organisations throughout the world, especially American gangsters. Moreover, hotel thieves, pickpockets, and forgers are all declared to be Jews.