DELIRIOUS JOY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 81, 4 March 1935, Page 8

DELIRIOUS JOY

RECEPTION TO HITLER. CELEBRATIONS IN SAAR. (United Press'Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 2, 1.35 p.m. SAARERUCKEN, March 1. “Hitler is here” was the news which electrified the city and transformed it overnight into a mighty stage ringing with music and bedecked with banners and garlands, under which a thousand Black Guards, Storm Troops and police marched and countermarched like

supers in a vast play. The enactment of to-day’s historic drama was prolonged far into the night with ceremonies, .demonstrations, loudspeakers, martial music and the tramp of troops. It defied sleep as incoming thousands from Germany strode triumphantly to their quarters, unmindful of the bitter cold and drizzle. Amid delirious enthusiasm in which 20,000 participated, Herr Hitler took the-salute, at an impressive march past. From the steps of the illuminated Town Hall he spoke to the cheering con course. ’He recalled, addressing the Saarlanders, the 1933 declaration. Germany had kept the promise, then broadcast, to stand by them. Hitler added: “I am happy to be with you during your first hours of libetry. It is a day of happiness for all Germany, even lor Europe, because it has removed the crisis under which two great nations suffered. Let us

hope that France is as ready as wo are to seek peace. It must he possible to grasp hanejs and remove all the obstacles to peace.” Herr Hitler continued: “To-day should be a lesson to those who believe a nation can he robbed of its character by force, or that its soul can he stolen. This cannot be done. Blood is stronger than documents. “To-day is only the beginning of the work for a great Reich. I implore

you wbo have ben faithful for 15 years to have faith in the new Gearmany, whose millions are row marching in step.” The cheers having subsided, Herr Buerckel shouted: "Germany is Adolph Hitler. Hitler is our Germany!” Herr Hitler, standing erect and bareheaded in his car, doffed his overcoat on arrival at the Town Hall, despite a downpour. In order to demonstrate that he scorned protection, he did not possess a Nazi bodyguard.