HITLER’S DREAM

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1938, Page 5

HITLER’S DREAM

GERMAN’S FUTURE FORMER NAZI’S DISCLOSURE. | * (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, March 11. The Daily Telegraph devotes a column to a review of a book, “I Knew Hitler,’’ just published. The author is Kurt G. W. Ludecke, who joined the Nazis in 1922. He became closely associated with Herr Hitler, who entrusted him to conduct, the Nazi press bureau in Washington, and sent him as envoy to Signor Musso-. lini. Ludecke spent eight months in a concentration camp in, 1934, when lie | escaped to America, where his book was written. The author reports Herr Hitler as saying, in the course of an interview in 1932: “What Will Britain, France and America say once I' am Chancellor. 1 do not care what they think. Austria will be the first fruit to drop into my lap, I shall settle things with Mussolini myself. If Britain opposes a greater Germany, I still think Mussolini might be interested in making Germany so strong that together we might force John Bull to his knees. “If it is going to take bombs to show these gentlemen in London j Paris { and New York that I mean business, they can have them. I will go the limit when the time comes—not before. I see the German Reich stretching from the North Sea to the Urals without a Stalin.” NAZI RALLY. A CATHOLIC DRIVE. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 10. , | The “Telegraph’s” Munich correspondent says a new drive against the Catholic Church was the keynote of the speeches of the Nazi rally, to celebrate five years of Nazi rule. ATTACK ON FAULHABER. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) BAVARIA, March 10. Adolph Wagner, ’district leader of Bavaria! attacked. 'F’aulljaber. He declared there could be’ no peace in Germany; until political'priests were rooted out. Himmler alleged that Cdtliolic leaders plotted to separate Bavaria from the Reich, but- Nazis forestalled them when they seized power in 1932. The ' M inister of Justice, Herr Frank, threatened to fight against Catholics; Jews, and other enemies of National Socialism to be henceforth carried on with increasing vigour. COMMENT. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, March 10. The first news of the Austrian plebiscite appeared in the afternoon, in a brief official summary. The newspapers • generally ask why tlie haste and how ' can a true index of feeling be obtained, when there are no voting lists and ' no control, which is open to all sorts of abuses. ;