GERMAN ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 72, 26 March 1938, Page 11

GERMAN ELECTIONS

SPEECH BY FUHRER

SAVING OF AUSTRIA

THE NAZI CREED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received March 26, 1.45 p.m.) . BERLIN, March 25. Further attacks on the League of Nations, the Versailles Treaty, and Dr. Schuschnigg were made by Herr Hitler in opening the election campaign at Koenigsberg.

Twenty special trains brought a huge audience from all parts of East Prussia.

The speech was frequently interrupted for minutes at a time by a chorus of "Siegheil." Eight squadrons of air force planes flew overhead. Army and air force units were mounted as guards of honour..

Commenting on Austrian independence, Herr Hitler asked what independence could be enjoyed by 6,500,000 people and what kind of sovereignty that depended on foreign countries. What was the meaning of a sovereignty which was pushed on to a people by I means of violence? The foreign world had not given Austria superficial sovereignty from love of the German people living there, nor forbidden an anschluss as a favour to the Austrians, but for its own interests. An anschluss was forbidden in order to keep , Germany weak, torn, and helpless. Austria had been doomed to economic destruction, but she would now be saved as Germany had been saved. But where economic opportunity was small the whole power of the nation must be bent .to the task. "Already we suffer from the fact that our territory in the world is so small that we lack supplementary colonies," he said. The National Socialist idea, he added, was the expression of the common desire of the Austrian people as they had looked longingly across the German border. This idea went far beyond the borders of a little Germany. "We don't make proselytes of other nations," he said, "but nobody can prevent National Socialist teaching from becoming a political creed for every German."