THE GERMAN PEOPLE
AN INTIMATE VIEW
(By Telegraph.) ! (Special to the "Evening: Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. H. Turner, London manager of the New Zealand Fruit Board, who is in Duhedin on one of his periodical visits, gave some interesting sidelights on the international situation. Mr. Turner has visited Germany on busi* .ness several times a year since 1932, and was in Berlin a week before sailing for New Zealand. He came perhaps more closely in touch with the German "man in the street" than the ordinary tourist making a rather hurried tour. He also visited most of the other Continental countries during this period, and without hesitation he places the German people firsj in his appreciation. In the business world he found absolute integrity, and in private life they were kindly, hospitable, and more like our own people than any other race, not even excepting the Americans. "The brutal ill-treatment of the Jewish people, especially in November last, has been abhorrent to the bulk of decent Germans," he , said, "and some day this dastardly crime will have its repercussions. I have had personal touch with sufficient instances to know that the November happenings, especially in Berlin and Vienna, were such as to meet with disapproval of good German citizens. There is reason to believe that the leading spirits were Goebbels and Streicher; but while Hitler and Goering may not have approved, they did not seem to hurry about calling a halt.
"The German people are closer akin to us than any other race, and feel that we should never be on opposite sides."
It was not difficult to understand the astonishment of the population at ihe German-Soviet pact, as hatred of Russia had been persistently instilled into young and old by intensive propaganda. On the other hand it was quite certain that there will be no diminution in the distrust between the two nations, and this may be the Allies* safeguard against any deep particip* tion in the conflict
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 10
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