NAZI DICTATORSHIP

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1934, Page 7

NAZI DICTATORSHIP

CHANGES IN POLICY. [BY CABLE—PBEBB ASBN. —COPYBIGHT.] BERLIN, September 1. General Goering has released 742 persons from protective custody in the Prussian concentration camps. Protective custody in future will be applied only in emergencies. Hence forth, all prisoners are to be dealt with in the ordinary courts. Acting on the instructions of the head of the Reichsband, Dr Schacht, of the Reichsbank, has notified Di Goebels that no further foreign currency will be available for propaganda outside of Germany, on which ten millions sterling has ’been spent annually. JEWISH EXODUS. BERLIN, August 31. Official statistics show that since the Nazis’ regime began, 21,000 Jews have migrated to France, 10,000 to Palestine, 8,000 to- Poland, 4,000 to Czecho-Slovakia, 3000 to America, 3,000 to Holland, 3,000 to Switzerland, 2,000 to England, 2,000 to Belgium, and 6,000, to other countries. DEBT DEFAULT. RUGBY, September 3. No Ministerial or other official comment was made on the speech by Dr. Schacht at Badeilsen, bu.t the British Press reaction to the choice which he offers to the nation to lend more money or receive nothing on account of past debts is severely unfavourable. Before accepting the moratorium, says the “Daily Telegraph,” creditors of Germany will require more than the assurance of Dr. Schacht that the capacity to meet obligations has been exhausted, or that German resources have not been frittered away by her internal policies. “The Times,” after noting that the speech coming so soon after the settlement of the dispute about the Dawes and Young Loans created a bad impression, draws attention to the increase in the excess of British purchases from Germany over German purchases from Britain during the past few months. So far as British creditors are concerned, it adds, there is even less validity than before in the claim that Germany cannot pay her debts because foreign countries will not buy her goods. Dr. Schacht s version of the position is one-sided and misleading. It alienates whatever sympathy might otherwise be. felt for Germany in the difficulties which very largely she created for herself. It would be nearer the truth to say that Germany’s economic policy has been deliberately planned to make export surplus impossible, and thus provide her with a plausible excuse for refusing to pay her debts.