NEW GERMANY DEFENDED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 29 September 1933, Page 9

NEW GERMANY DEFENDED

LATE EDITION

PROPAGANDIST AT GENEVA DESIRE FOR WORLD PEACE. TREATMENT OF THE JEWS. MASTERS OF THE NATION. (Umte<l Proi*s Association— By Electric Telegraph Oopynght.) Received 2.15 p.m'. to-day. GENEVA, Sept, 28. The Australian Press Association says that, fulfilling liis job as Minister of Propaganda, the German, -H-err Goebhels, held a seance afternoon which caused greater excitement than the proceedings of all the commissions together. Fully 200 journalists, representing the Press of the world, accepted invitations to a distant hotel where Germans are staying. The cards of entry were closely scrutinised by a hefty bodyguard lining the hotel entrance and a tense silence prevailed when Herr Goabbels rose and read an address on a National Socialist Germany and her contribution to world peace , , ~ , He read the address quietly, but occasionally with ringing tones and the flashing eyes of a fanatic. He made such a quiet, moderate and plausible defence of the new Germany that one wondered whether ail the stories of cruelties and ill-treatments were a dream Herr Goebhels said the concentration camps were only used to convert the anti-social leaders into useful citizens. The camps were open to foreigners’ inspection. It was unjust and shortsighted to infer that Germany desired war more than any other nation. Germany wanted peace for a solution of the economic crisis. . . '

Discussing the foreign anxiety regarding the Jews, Herr 'Goebbels said they had become absolute masters of Germany in Press, literature, the theatre, the cinema, the medical and 1 legal professions and on the stock exchange. They were the rulers of Parliamentary parties. This excess _of Jewish influence had been dealt with by legal and humane methods. The Government had acted in Europe's best interests, erecting a solid wall against anarchy, chaos and Bolshevism.