NAZI SYMPATHISERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 6

NAZI SYMPATHISERS

ACTION IN DOMINION

IMMEDIATE INTERNMENT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, May 13,

"Anyone who interferes with the Government in the prosecution of the war will not be allowed his liberty," said the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash), amid cheers and applause when replying to questions concerning alleged German spies in New Zealand at a meeting he addressed in support of Mr. P. Carr, official Labour Party candidate in the Auckland West byelection.

Mr. Nash was speaking of the war aims of the Germans and their efforts to dominate the world when he was interrupted by an. interjector who asked: "Why don't you intern the ones who are here?"

The Minister said some had already been interned and any known Nazi sympathiser would be put in a place where he could do no harm. He mentioned, however, that there were some difficulties because some people of German birth were not Nazi sympathisers. On the contrary, they had fled from Hitler, from Germany into Austria, from Austria to Czecho-Slovakia, and from Czecho-Slovakia to Poland before going to England and eventually *to New Zealand. "We are not going to trample on the ideals we are fighting to defend," he added.

A voice: They are doing it here. The Minister: As soon as we find any interference we will stop them. ■ The voice: It will be too late.

Mr. Nash replied that any person who knew of another spying and neglecting to inform the authorities was himself a traitor. ■