NAZI WAR ON REDS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1933, Page 5

NAZI WAR ON REDS

CIVILISATION SAFE

DR. ROSENBERG’S STRONG CLAIM

(United Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy ri gh t.)

'■ LONDON, May 11. Dr. > Rosenberg (envoy. of Herr Hitler). has issued- a statement, pointing out. that Germany’s strong measures igainst the Communists have

saved .Central Europe, and have also prevented the.destruction of Western civilisation. He remarked that May

Dify' in Germ tiny was an actual peaceful ..festival, thus showing that the upheaval'there did not involve the guillotining of thousands of people, hut represented ,fche people’s uprising. The discipline that had been exhibited was the more remarkable because Hitlerism bad lost three hundred in killed and twenty-six' thousand in ' grounded in ten years of ' Marxist outrages. Nazi excesses were insignificant' in view of the scale of the-Nazi revolution. ’ . ’' ”

Germany, affiled Dr. Rosenberg, wished no re-firming of the world. She hoped for a growing Anglo.-German understanding. /

Dr. Rosenberg subsequently 'informed the. press that he was unable to shy whether Air Ramsdy Mac-Don* nld and Mr Baldwin had ‘ ref used’to see him, Thebe was no time fdr, lsm to: see them, because his' were over. . He had hsce'idttineq’cfear-' ly what the people thought, but tliero was, he said, no average feeling either way. The persecution 'of '• Jews in Germany was nothing compared to what the Nazis had undergone in'tho past fourteen years. Hie ; had himself faced former Governments’ bullets, and had been imprisoned. Only fm Jews had be t en beaten. Many mor« killings, he said, had occurred in Chi cago than in Gerniany. , Replying to an inquiry .from the Sydney “Sun” representative, as tc Chancellor Hitler’s colonial intentions, Drj Rosenberg said'that Germany must'have cblcniesT "She intends to get them, probably six years hence. When ; asked".' 'Germany' dcfrired to liave 'the Australian 'of, New Zealand -mandates lie'. said’ that she was. aiming ’ Tanganyika and the German African colonies.' .

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LABOUR PARTY’S ATTITUDE;

(Per British'Official Wireless,)

RUGBY, May 11

Replying in tlib "Commons to a nii'irilier of questions, with reference to the arrival in England of' two prominent members of til© German Nazi moveent, Dr. Rosenberg-,.and Herr .Thort. Sir J. sdid be understood Rosenberg proposed to stay .days Thort' who was a foreign‘ newspaper,.;, correspondent, hacl„..bssu residjrig ; ill!‘Eng; land since ’)k>C-been asked to give any' undertaking to refrain from propaganda during their stay. - rr ,, ■ •'Asked'why different treatment was accorded them from that accorded to oither propagandists,. Sir J. Gilmour •said, he, did not.'think there was any difference in treatment. Each individual case was considered on its merits.

Latetj Mr G. Lansbury /Labour) asked leave to move the adjournment of ‘the House, to discuss the admission to Britain of certain German Fascist propagandists arid the failure of the Home Secretary, to obtain from, them undertakings not to engage in propa-

ganda. -. The Horne Secretary interyqa&UJo remark that in view ,of thp ; .fftct the ! German ambassador; interested himself in the the visit, he saw no. reason to special arrangements.’ ;-The 'Speaker of the House, having ruled that Mr ; 'Lansbury’s motion did not come within the; Standing Orders, .the latter gave, notice that he would, if time permitted, raise the question of the /notion for adjournment. ' ', . v ' ’ . •' '

PROFESSOR ATTACKS HITLERISM.. '

JS WORSE THAN BOLSHEVISM,

LONDON,. May 12. “The Germans refuse to recognise intellectual and .moral’ grounds of humanity. They seem deliberately to be cutting themselves off from civilisaid Professor Haldane, addressing the London University Union, prior ;to the' passage of a resolution protecting against persecution, and appointing committees to fight Hitlerism. Professor Haldane added : “Mur.’ [ dors or mutilations are relatively un-. important, compared with an attempt to starve , a million Jews to death in ■default of their departure from the country.” • , - i! - He declared that HltWifrar. was more terrible than BoisbefSmt’y ; The 1 persecution of Jews was-only the beginning. Most Britons, he said, were tending to recognise coloured peoples as their equals, as France, already did, to .the horrrr of Herr Hitler, who ■branded coloured people as untouchable.. ' *■'

Professor Haldane continued: “We must smash Hitlerism by economic pressure; succour the refugees, and prevent the spread of German Fascism here. We must boycott German goods—if necessary, forcibly.”

Professor Lancelot Hogben said that nobody was more responsible than the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon, Ramsay MacDonald, for placing and keeping Herr Hitler in the saddle.

GERMAN VIEW ON WREATH EPISODE.

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.)

BERLIN, May 12

The removal of Dr. Rosenberg’s wreath from the Cenotaph is regarded pr an affront to Hitler and Germany. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” dechares that England’s worldwide reputation for treating guests decently ha s received a severe blow. The “Baerzen Zeitung” says that Germany expects the British Government to brand this offensiveness anct formally disavow it.

SIR J. SIMON EXPRESSES REGRET

LONDON, May 12

Sir John Simon, during a chance meeting with the German ambassador, expressed regret regarding the Cenotaph incident.