NAZI COURTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 July 1934, Page 11

NAZI COURTS

“HITLER’S WILL IS JUSTICE.”

(by cable— pbess assn.—copyeight.]

BERLIN, July 13.

“Justice and Herr Hitler s will aie one' It is that justice you must defend from all attacks,” declared General Goering, when addressing a special gathering of public prosecutoi-s and attorneys convened b} the Mm Fstei ot Justice, to which additional importance was given by the presence of Herr Himmler, the Chief of the Secret Police, and his second-in-com-mand, Herr Heidrich General Goering added: I shall peisonally back those doing their duty ruthlessly, and shall deal with those who don’t. Our leader’s action on June 30 and subsequently, was the highest realisation of the best feeling of justice, which has now been legalised. Consequently, no quarter has any right to subject it to criticism. Excesses which have occurred must be punished without respect to persons. I demand that you keep clean the atmosphere which Herr Hitler has cleansed.” JOURNALISTS’ REPLY. (Received July 14, Noon). BERLIN, July 13.

After considering Dr Goebbel’s accusations of misrepresentation, sixty members of the International Pi ess Association, decided by fifty-five to five that world opinion had already answered the charges, and emphasised their adherence to the truth in accordance with professional traditions. PROTEST TO U.S.A. (Recd. July 14, 10-30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 13. Doctor Rudolf Leitner, Charge d Affaires at the German Embassy, called at the State Department to-day to ask for an explanation of the speech made by General Hugh Johnson, N.R.A., Administrator at Waterloo (Iowa) in which he arraigned the German Government for allegedly executing German citizens without trial.

HIS INDIVIDUAL OPINION.

(Recd. July 14, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 13.

Replying to the official Germany protest against anti-Hitler utterances by General Johnson, the State Department, to-day, said it was to be regretted “that a- position occupied by the Recovery Administrator made it possible for the remarks by him as a individual to be misconstrued as official.”

In his Waterloo speech on Thursday, General Johnson said that conditions in Germany made him actively sick. NOTHING WITHDRAWN. OMAHA (Nebraska), July 13. General Johnson, to-day, reiterated: “I meant everything I said,” when shown the dispatches relating to the Leitner protest.

AUSTRIAN DRIVE.

VIENNA, July 13.

As part of a new drive against the Nazi terrorists in Austria, the Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss, has decreed the death penalty for explosion crimes, and the illegal possesion of explosives. The decree allows live days’ grace during which such explosives may be given to the police.

UNIFORMS BARRED

BRUSSELS, July 13

Following the example of Holland, the Chamber has passed a bill banning the wearing of uniforms by political groups.