GERMAN DISSENSIONS?

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 7

GERMAN DISSENSIONS?

NAZI EXECUTIVE CHANGES U.S.A. PRESS REPORTS [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] NEW YORK, January 18. Newspapers here are heavily featuring two despatches from widely different sources, indicating the existence of a, crisis in. Germany. William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, states that private frank correspondence from diplomatic sources in London and Paris reveals that the situation inside of Germany is far from good. Field Marshal Goering, who has advised against any policy which might plunge the country into war, has, it is stated, incurred the enmity of Herr Von Ribbentrop (Foreign Secretary), and Herr Himmler (Head of the Police). Moreover, since the Czech crisis there is stated to have been twenty per cent, of a reduction in the production of the German key industries. It is believed that there is a deliberate “slow down” strike by workers, who have no other means of registering disapproval of the policy which, they believe, is leading them into another unwanted war. Doctor Goebbels, moreover, is said to be in disfavour with Herr Hitler, due to his anti-,Semitic extremes. The morale of the German people is represented as being noticeably on the wane, although the German food supply and other essentials are up to the standard of recent years. The reason therefore is said to be a strain to which Herr Hitler’s policy is subjecting the German nation.

The second dispatch is from Berlin, by Louis Lochner, a press, correspondent, who says that reports of .farreaching changes in the Nazi administration, involving Marshal Goering, Dr Goebbels and others are current . in Berlin, with official sources declining to comment. GERMAN DENTAL. (Received January 20, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, January 19. The Reich Press Chief, Herr Dietrich, states that foreign reports of impending changes in the Cabinet are without foundation.

LEAGUE AND DANZIG

(Recd. Jan. 20, 1.30 p.m.). GENEVA, January 19.

The League Committee issued a communique saying that recent decrees contravene the Danzig Constitution (this refers to the application of the Nuremberg laws). Pending consideration before the next session of the League Council, Professor Burckhardt is remaining at the committee’s disposal.