NEW ORDER IN EUROPE
FUNK'S EXPOSITION
NOT FAVOURABLY RECEIVED
(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 30, 2 p.m.) RUGBY, July 29. The exposition by the Nazi Minister of Economic Affairs, Dr. Funk, of Nazi schemes for a new economic order in Europe have not had a very favourable Press comment in countries where comment is still free, according to summaries reaching London. The Swiss newspaper "Democrat" says: "Many economists consider that the driving of Britain from Europe and the construction of a separate European bloc would precipitate the hemorrhage of a dying continent" —which represents, in the view of experts here, a very shrewd view of the facts. A Norwegian journal says: "Swedish and D'anish papers write regarding this that their countries' culture is inseparably bound up with the old democratic tradition, and the same can be said of Norway. We Norwegians have been accustomed for generations to think and talk freely and it is for ourselves to choose who shall administer our affairs. If we lose these democratic rights we will lose the kernel of culture. Perhaps we have not paid heed to the value of the free word and free criticism as we ought. We have regarded th,em as a matter of course. But if we were one day to lose them, a storm of indignation would burst forth."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 8
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220NEW ORDER IN EUROPE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 8
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