NAZI STORM TROOPS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 March 1934, Page 5

NAZI STORM TROOPS

BESEMBIIE SALVATION ARMY. LONDON, March 1. “Militarism, religion, and health are to the new German what- sport, religion, and health are to Britons,” writes a special correspondent after an inspection of German unemployed. The correspondent tells of a'oO-milea route march arranged for competitors from all over Germany, carrying full military equipment and rifles. When he asked the reason for the military display, he was told that the march Avas merely like that of British athletes in the annual walking race from London to Brighton. An important member of the Government contended that the Storm Troops resembled the Salvation Army, tfhus proving the difference between British and German mentalities.

Herr Hanfstaegel, Hitler’s greatest friend, remarked: “We AA'ere starved out in the last war, consequently men are going back to the land to provide food. We are rearming.’ Many declare tract Germany must regain her colonies to make new German centres.

“The neiv Germany is a force for good,” is the summing up of the correspondent, who adds: “Its kindly interest in the unemployed is praiseworthy, but all these labour camps, uniforms and parades arouse wonder AA'hether this healthy national spirit has the right leaders, and Avhether it will haA r e the right leaders in the future, when guidance may be even more necessary.”