ORDER OUT OF CHAOS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 August 1933, Page 9

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS

THE HITLERj REGIME. “GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED.” DUNEDIN, July 29. Mr Charles Martin, a well-known Dunedin musician, who returned some days ago after two years’ study in England and on the Continent, sneaking of modern Germany, said that Ihe whole German attitude had been grossly’ misrepresented and exaggerated. Really, he said, it was an attitude of absolute friendliness, but for some reason the suggestion of danger of the martial element was being fostered by English politicians and the Press. Mr Martin said he had found newspaper stories' which seemed to vie with each other, in sensationalism unreliable. When he proposed to visit Germany last- year he was almost deterred by loud English headlines of “Civil War Imminent in Germany.” When lie did go over there he found that while there was a state of chaos it was not very marked. Since Hitler had come into power, he said, Communism had been wiped out. It had been undermining the German Constitution and creating that ohaotio state, and Hitler, who was a misrepresented man, had got to the root of the trouble. No doubt he had made mistakes, but his ideals- were ignored and his shortcomings' exaggerated. When the first Jewish boycott was carried out Hitler realised that he had made a mistake, and he cancelled the second boycott. Of course, it was difficult to understand the subsequent persecution] of the Jews. Mr Martin discounted any talk of war in connection with Germany. She was stiill _muddled. She had no money, armies ,or allies, and itywas Hitler who was restoring order out of chaos-. The nation knew it had someone to look to, and had confidence and faith in him. Mr (Martin said he was confident that in a few years’ time we would regal’d the- result of the Hitler regime as- we regard Fascism to-day. The fears 1 that the creation of the Storm Troops had aroused Mr Martin also deprecated. They were more or less a form of special police necessary to establish order, he said. Germany was. trying to forget the past; England, hhrpugh her politicians and. Press, was not.