HITLER WILL NOT ABANDON GERMAN RIGHTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 80, 16 March 1936, Page 8

HITLER WILL NOT ABANDON GERMAN RIGHTS

No Desire for Eternal War.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. MUNICH, March 15.

Hollywood could not have eclipsed the setting in which HenHitler opened his election campaign. Two hundred loud-speakers studded the mile-square meadow surrounding the Exhibition Hall, accommodating 10,000 persons, in which the rostrum was erected. Bengal flares and artillery salutes marked bis progress to the hall. Hus listeners outside shivered in the cold while Herr Wagner, the Nazi leader, filled up the wait for Herr Hitler, who was detained for an hour by conversations with Herr von Bibbentrop, Armaments Plenipotentiary, and Herr Eudolf Hess, the Fuhrer’s personal deputy, regarding the League Council’s invitation.

Herr Wagner paid a tribute to the gathering of 300,000 as the mightiest seen in Munich. He lauded Herr Hitler as Germany’s saviour.

Herr Hitler was received with a roar of cheering when Herr Wagner presented him with a unanimous resolution conveying the sentiment embodied in his speech. Herr Hitler called on his hearers for the third time to declare their faith in the third Reich and vote to show that he did not face the world alone.

"I have the whole nation behind me and have decided to hold elections in this faith,” said the Fuhrer. ' “I will be Germany’s courageous champion, not afraid to assume responsibility. I wish to regain for Germany respect in the world's eyes. I did what I did, not because I liked playing soldiers but to restore the strength of the people.

“The most peaceful animal needs claws iq. order not to be attacked. No flattery or threats will induce me to abandon my rights. The world must receive Germany as a partner, not a slave. “I go the way which Fate has shown me with the certainty of a somnambulist. Germany does not desire to wage eternal war nor gain her ends by bloodshed. We have another way. Six hundred thousand births a year moan the rejuvenation of the German people.

“We must leave the whole colonial question to common sense,” said HenHitler.

“We shall never agree to the division of the nations by the Versailles Treaty into good or bad. We will not let ourselves be treated as negro slaves. We will not tolerate being sent from one international court to another when right is on our side. “The German Government signed the Locarno Pact, which determined that whoever was the offender should appear before the League, which could determine the aggressor. France embodied in that pact two other treaties, with Poland and Czechoslovakia. The pact stipulated that a district inhabited by 14,000,000 Germans should be deprived entirely of German sovereignty. “We put up with it for a long time for the sake of peace; then the FrancoSoviet Pact was passed and the RussoCzeclioslovakian treaty formulated. Tbe Franco-Soviet Treaty violated Locarno. If there should be war between France, Russia and Czechoslovakia on the one side and Germany on the other, who would dare impose sanctions against such a combination of forces?

“Russia is not a national State but an Imperialistic Bolshevik State. If France became embroiled, as she may, in Bolshevism, Moscow would decide who the aggressor was in a conflict on Germany's western frontier. MUST BE REBUILT.

“Europa must be rebuilt on a new foundation if it is to recover. We want peace with France. We do not interfere in the internal politics of other nations, and they must respect ours. Only God has the right to decide what is just, and God’s voice is the people’s voice. “You, my German compatriots, are therefore the only ones who have the right to judge by actions. Your verdict on me will be determined on March 29, the slogan being ‘for German freedom and German equality’. Millions will then bind their wills with mine, allowing me to represent German rights, not to throw down the gauntlet to others.” Herr Hitler concluded after repeated ovations and amid wild bursts of cheers and singing.

All Germany had flocked to Munich to hear Herr Hitler’s speech. The l-uhrer, in a brown uniform and brown leather overcoat, arrived at 4.30 p.m. accompanied by his personal bodyguard, Lieut. Hellers Brueckner. He was welcomed by the Nazi leader, Herr Wagner, and the head of the Black Guards, Herr Himmler. There was only a small crowd owing to the secrecy of his arrival.

Herr Hitler drove to his hotel to complete details of his speech. Meanwhile, the Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, had explained that the League Council's invitation had reached the Chancellery after Herr Hitler’s departure, this precluding an immediate reply, which is now expected on March 15.

Special trains brought 20,000 Storm Troopers, Black Guards, members of Labour Corps and party members, who were distributed about the city in readiness for the mammoth parade,,a striking feature of which was the general repetition of the “holy oath never t) waver from the Fuhrer’s side but to accompany him in the happiness of struggle, work and sacrifice not for ourselves but for sacred Germany.” Bands entertained the crowds with exclusively military music throughout the afternoon. The town is plastered with posters and banners urging demonstrations for peace with honour, against jingoism and Bolshevism and in loyalty to Herr Hitler. HITLER v. SCHACHT. Herr Hitler later hurried to Berlin and conferred with Baron von Neurath, who is believed to have stressed that world opinion unanimously condemned the repudiation of Locarno. Tha "Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent at Berlin states that Reichswehr leaders also counselled moderation, supporting Dr. Schacht, whose position is the subject of considerable speculation. Nazi extremists are seeking to make the most of the opportunity of encompassing his downfall. Financial circles, however, are strongly behind Dr. Schacht and consider his dismissal would mean the economic collapse of Germany. The Berlin Stock Exchange reflected the uneasiness,