WAR RECOVERY

Evening Star, Issue 20655, 1 December 1930, Page 2

WAR RECOVERY

WILL TAKE A GENERATION PROFESSOR'S VIEW OF EUROPE IF** Ukitid Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, November 30. Although Herr Hitler was very much hi the news and a _ widely-discussed figure at the present time in Germany, England, and live Continent generally, Professor J. Macmillan Brown, of Christchurch, who returned by the Rotorua from a visit to those countries, was not inclined to tho belief that “Hitlerism” would score much of a success. “My own impression,” he said, “ is that it is only a passing phase in Germany.” Horr Hitler was not a German, Professor Macmillan Brown explained, and the nest elections when they eventuated would probably see his stock falling fairly considerably. He seemed to bo Imitating Mussolini, and Professor Macmillan Brown did not think that lie would go very far. A transformation of tho life of the country through “ Hitlerism ” was not likely to occur, especially if business, trade, and the standard of living improved. With the amount of distress that existed in Germany at tho present time the minds of a certain section of the population wore easy marks for Herr Hiller’s eloquence" and tho principles lie advocated.

Tu Hamburg Professor Brown stayed with Herr Dietze, a relation by marriage. who was at the head of a largo chemical firm. Herr Dietze had a son on the staff of Siemen’s Electrical Company’s headquarters in Berlin, who, Professor Brown said, was a thoroughly representative young man living in the centre of things at the capital. Herr Deitzc, jun., was strongly opposed to the Hitlerites, and his attitude was typical of the educated young German. " The world as a whole, Professor Brown thought, would take a generation. if not two generations, to get out of the war’s aftermath. England, certainly. was going to take as Jong us she did after the Napoleonic wars. He saw evidence of suffering in England. Tho most discussed subject there at the present time was the dole, about which many wore down-hearted, believing that it was bringing up a generation of young people without an inclination to work. The parades of unemployed which he had seen wore made up of people of all ages. Franco to-day, he said, was in a better position than any' other nation in Europe, the reason being that France had a smaller population. A man’s estate was by law split up between his children as a result of legislation that w r as introduced in tho revolutionary time, and a great number knew that it would mean very small shares to their children unless they limited their families to two or three. Professor Brown said ho had not gone far, enough into Italy to got any real evidence of what was going on there. Ho loft New Zealand lost March, accompanied by his daughter, Miss V. Macmillan Brown, and they travelled throughout England as welcl as spending some time in Scotland. They were guests of Sir Herbert Maxwell for a brief period. In his famous garden Sir Herbert has a groat number of Now Zealand trees, some in fine bloom and some remarkably old. After returning to London they left for the Continent, and visited Holland and Germany, going on later to Dolomites in Italy. Miss Brown, who is a painter, confessed - groat interest in German art and architecture.