MAY DAY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12851, 4 May 1936, Page 5

MAY DAY

NATIONAL REJOICINGS IN GERMANY. STRIFE AND BLOODSHED. POLICY CHANGED BY NAZIS. ENTHUSIASM FOR HITLER. “PEACE ABROAD NECESSARY TO OUR PLANS.’ (U.P.A. by Elen. Tel. Copy light},. BERLIN. May 1. “Peace abroad is necessary fo our plans,” declared Herr Hitler in a speech at tho. May Day celebrations. Greeted with wild cheering, fanfares of trumpets, and the boating cf drums Herr Hitler made a triumphal procession to tho Opera House at Chariot ten berg, ’ where: ho was ecstatically welcomed. Dr. Goebbels declared: “You are the whole German- people* You have given us- internal peace, and now prepare for world peace.” Herr Hitler declared that formerly May Day had been a source of strife o.nd bloodshed, but the .Nazis had changed this. It was now a day of national re. nicing in Germany, in contrast- to the troubled celebrations in other countries.

Herr Hitler then said : “Pence ahrond is necessary to our plans. Others conduct a campaign cd : lies, saving that Germany threatens Austria. and Czechoslovakia, hut they nro a small band pi international war pi ofiteers.” ■'Rejoice in 1 iio’' was the slogan adopted for Germany’s celebrations ol May Hay. Children began to assemble a.) early at 4 o'clock in the morning to hear Herr Hitler’s and Dr. Goebbebs'’ speeches. Jferr Hitler told them that Germany had no use lor mothers’ darlings. Children, he said, must chink only for the nation, which must lire united according to one will. IMPRESSIVE SCENE IX MOSCOW MILLIONS PARADE PAST LENIN’S TO MIL '.MO PLANES’ HOVER OVERHEAD. /U.P.A. by Eiec. Tel. Copy riant 1. MOSCOW, May l. M. Stalin and M. Molotov, standing ai Lenin’s tomb, inspected a parade of tens of thousands of troops and over 1.000.000 citizens, over whom hovered an air armada of 750 pianos, including 375 ultra-fast small freighters . The increasing mechanisation was the most notable feature of the military display. “UNITED FRONT” IN NEW YORK (U.P.A. by Eton. Tel. Copyright v. NEW YORK, May 1. Radical Labor celebrated the international May Day in traditional fash-

ion yrifli parades arid a mass meeting. Fori the first time since the war, the Radicals effected something of a “United Front” with the Left Wing Socialists, Communists and some of the American Federation of Labour units, all marching together. Right Wing Socialists, however, remained aloof. QUIET DAY IN FRANCE, r. I ■ • ___ ORDERLY LABOR DEMONSTATIONS.’ (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). PARIS, May 1. May Day was cpiiet in Franco. Mass labor demonstrations were held throughout France, hut very orderly, as t lie Leftists wore anxious not to prejudice their success at the second ballot clectiosn.