AT GREAT PACE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 8

AT GREAT PACE

HITLERISATION OF GERMANY

SPREAD OF THE FASCIST IDEA

CHANGES IN CONSTITUTION

Berlin, March 8. The Hitlerisation of Germany is proceeding at a great pace. Herr Hitler at a meeting of Cabinet, emphasising the importance of a uniform policy in the Reich and the Federal States, announced that a bill was being introduced into the Reichstag to alter the constitution. He told the Ministers that grandiose propagan la must be initiated to prevent the coun-

try lapsing into political apathy. It is understood that Herr Goebbels will become the head of the new Ministry of Propaganda to spread the Fascist idea.

Herr Frick reported that his measures in Hesse, Hamburg, Bremen and Luebeck were necessary because the local

Government were unable to guarantee

tranquility. The press bus been officially informed that Herr Hitler is not going to Geneva, and it is doubtful whether Germany will bo represented by a special envoy. The Government has warned foreign corrcsponlents who ‘‘persistently misrepresented the situation” that they will be expelled. Many have fled the country, and others will be placed on

two mouths’ probation. The American Ambassador has made representations to the Foreign Office regarding three cases of American citizens, two of whom were Jews, who were assaulted by Nazi storm troops. The Jews referred to are Nathaniel Wolff, who was assaulted and threatened by Nazis in a boardinghouse and advised to leave Germany, and Harry Zetter, a New York Jew, who declares the 15 Nazis attacked him and two friends when in the street.

STATE OF EMERGENCY

PROCLAIMED IN AUSTRIA

Vienna, March 8

While hundreds of thousands of Hitlerites in Austria are celebrating the German victory, Cabinet hero has decide 1 to proclaim a state of emergency, under which parades and mass meetings are forbidden, and the freedom of the press restricted. The frontiers will be closed nominally against German Communist refugees, but really to prevent the peaceful penetration of Fascist Hitlerism.