NAZI FESTIVITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 237, 4 September 1933, Page 8

NAZI FESTIVITY

3.15 P.M. EDITION

GERMANY AND THE WAR. HERR HITLER’S DECLARATION. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received September 4, 12.30 p.m. NUREMBERG, Sept. 3. Dr. llosenburg told the Nazi Congress that Britons rarely understood the need for discipline because they had personal freedom from anxiety due to their knowledge of their proven insular independence. On tlie contrary, the Germans were threatened from all sides.

He denied that the Jews were persecuted ; the Nazis had merely restored elementary justice to the German people, who had cast off Jewish domination.

The ostentatious Victory Congress is nearing its close. Little sleep was obtainable last night due to the enormous fireworks display. One hundred and ten thousand Storm Troops, unarmed but with full field equipment, marched on to the parade ground. Herr Hitler, in a speech, said: “The world must not interpret the present meeting as any desire on our part to earn new laurels on the battlefield. No new war can bring Germany more honour than the last. It was more creditable to hold out for four and a half years against a greater force than, to conquer one enemy with 20 allies. It is unnecessary to re-establish the honour of the nation in battle. Honour was never taken from us on the battlefield, but on the home soil. We expunged that dishonour, consequently the present display signifies the only great festive recognition of German unity.” Herr Hitler, describing them as holy and honourable, dedicated 126 new flags of the regiments of every part of Germany, touching them with the bloodstained standard of 1923. The Chancellor’s bodyguard comprised 20 giants in black uniforms and wearing steel helnients while 700,000, including Herr Hofer, with whom HenHitler shook hands, watched the parade with great enthusiasm.

In May last Dr Rosenberg went, to London and conferred with Sir John Simon,Lord Hailsham and Mr Norman Davis, the United States delegate in Europe. Dr Rosenberg wanted to ascertain Britain’s reaction to Hitlerism. It was understood that Mr Davis emphasised that America under no circumstances would consent to Germany’s rearmament and regarded Germany’s Geneva policy as an obstacle in the path of the Disarmament Conference, consequently casting a shadow on the World Conference. Furthermore, America considered Germany as tending to become a disturber of European peace. Iho Sun Agency understood that the British Ministers did not minco words and stressed the nation-wide condemnation ot recent events in Germany regardless of political parties, and emphasised Britain s perturbation at Hitlerism’s effect on disarmament. Li 1923 Herr Hitler led a rising in Bavaria, but this was soon put down and ho was imprisoned. Soon after his release he formed the Nazi Party,. which adopted a military organisation and lit 1930 secured 107 seats in the Reichstag the standard referred to above is probably one of these used in the Bavarian rising.