GERMAN GOVERNMENT
CHANCELLOR’S DECLARATION
PROGRAMME TO CREATE WORK
NO DESIRE FOR WAR.
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 16, 12.30 p.m. BERLIN, Dec. 15.
“We are ready to arm our soldiers with knives and paper shields if our neighbours will do likewise,” said General von Schleicher, the Chancellor, when broadcasting the Government’s policy, “but Germany’s urmy must, like any other, guarantee the country’s safety.” Ho added that he was' not only a soldier, but an impartial administrator, bringing not sword but peace. Bayonets were not convenient, but nobody could rule without a large section of the populace behind hint. Hie Government s programme was to create work.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 9
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