ALL FOR HITLER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 7

ALL FOR HITLER

GERMAN PLEBISCITE VOTE.

AIM OF GOVERNMENT,

WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 4, 9.0 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 3. In order to ensure that the forty million voters will answer “yes” to the plebiscite, “Do you support the law making Herr Hitler Reich leader?” Dr Goebbels is planning a whirlwind fifteen-day campaign, including the use of two hundred thousand loudspeakers throughout which the Nazi speeches will be daily broadcast.

It is intended to round up the laggards on polling day and get a 100 per cent. vote. Dr Goe'bbels is confident it will be 100 per cent. pro-Hitler. At a meeting of Cabinet Herr Hitler said : We must not f orget that _ without the lamented President Hindenburg the present Government would never have come into being. HITLER'S LONE HAND. RESENTMENT AND APPREHENSION. HINDENBURG'S LOSS SEVERE. LONDON, Aug. 3. The News-Chronicle's Berlin correspondent says that Herr Hitler's action in appointing himself President while remaining Chancellor has aroused surprise, dismay, and resentment. The Cabinet decree confers powers upon him exceeding those of Signor Mussolini, M. Stalin, or any Eastern potentate. They even include final decision between peace and war. The Times says it is a cruel stroke of fate for Germany that Field-Marshal Hindenburg's steadying ' influence should have been removed when it was more than ever needed.

. The Daily Telegraph says that the coming winter may well be critical. Herr Hitler, by concentrating control in liis own hands, makes himself the focuss of dissatisfaction should there be failure.

High political circles in Paris express the opinion that Herr Hitler’s assumption of the dual role lias not strengthened his position. On the contrary, it is believed that he has lost in Field-Marshal Hindenburg his screen and buttress at the moment when he needs them most.

Herr Hitler’s self-appointment was no surprise in Rome. It was felt that the difficulties confronting him were so great that some such step was inevitable. It is recognised that he must proceed with caution, especially in foreign policy, because lie no longer has Field-Marshal Hindenburg’s prestige behind him. The political significance of the merging of the Chancellorship and the Presidency lias passed almost unnoticed, so intense is the public mourning for “Old Paul,” as Field-Marshal Hindenburg was affectionately called, states a Berlin message. Newspapers are not allowed to comment because Nazi authorities recognise tho merging of the offices as a breach of the German Constitution. PARIS INDIFFERENT.

The Manchester Guardian’s Paris correspondent says that the public received the news of President Hindenburg’s death with indifference because the legend of the “Grand Old Man,” whom the French once admired, bad been destroyed in the past 18 months. Le Temps refers to “his betrayal of 18,000,000 Germans who elected him President and his blatant violations of the Constitution since February, 1933.”

MILITARY VIRTUES. The Times, in a lender, extols President Hindenburg's military virtues, but, nevertheless, declares that his dismissal of Dr Bruening, who was undefeated in the Reichstag, placed upon him a heavy responsibility for the subsequent deterioration of public life. He was a nohle figurehead who may sometimes have sanctioned what he did not approve, but still remained a soldier and patriot who fought for Germany before she was an empire and served her with equal faithfulness when Imperial forms had passed away. After the radio announcement of Field-Marshal Hindenburg's death the British Broadcasting Corporation orchestra played "Deutschland Tiber Alles." Sir Horace Rumbold, a former Ambassador at Berlin, broadcast a glowing tribute, after which a short pause was observed. From Tokio the Emperor of Japan has sent a message of condolence. TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT. THOUSANDS AT NEUDECK. Received August 4, 9.55 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 3. Thousands from all parts of Germany paid their last tribute to President Hindenburg, who is lying in state at Neudeck, the ex-Crown Prmce placing a wreath on the death-bed on behalf of the ex-Kaiser. The body, dressed in a Field-Mar-shal's uniform, lias been placed in the coffin for the. journey to Tannenberg on Monday along the 25-mile route which will be lined with torch-bearing Storm Guards and Storm Troops. Only men will be admitted to the funeral service. RESPECT BY BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 4, 11.52 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 3. The King lias commanded that flags bo flown at half-mast on all Government buildings on Tuesday, which is the day fixed for the funeral of President Hindenburg.