NAZI CONGRESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 2

NAZI CONGRESS

GREAT MILITARY DISPLAY. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received September 11, 2.5 p.mNUREMBERG, Sept. 10. 1 The church bells pealed and artillery boomed salutes when Kerr Hitler arrived for the annual Nazi Congress. Tens of thousands lined the streets cheering wildly as lie passed standing in an open car. Contrasting . with earlier congresses, uniformed regular soldiers were more prominent than the Brown Shirts as the celebrations are intended to symbolise the mI troduction of conscription and the leI possession of military independence, i Herr Hitler personally was respon- ; sible for giving the military twist to the congress. Stress will be laid on the united front alleged to exist bci tween the Nazis and the Reichswehr. | Herr Hitler, acknowledging the gift ~of a replica of the sword of Charlemagne, declared that the gift symbolised the power of the Reich and would always remind him of the first year of German liberty to rearm. This is the greatest festival in Nazi history. Herr Hitler reviewed the Reichswehr, which displayed famous war-time flags. Eighty thousand Storm Troopers are attending the congress in addition to 50,000 members of the Labour Servico Corps and 100,000 party officials. Most of the visitors are living in tents. Many marched hundreds of miles to bo present, carrying their own supplies of bedding. One of the guests of honour is Miss Unity Mitford, Lord Redesdale’s daughter, who supports Herr Stretcher's anti-Semitism. Herr Dietrich, chief of the Nazi Press Bureau, received journalists. He stated that Germany’s foreign policy sought to replace the endless succession of ineffectual League conferences by direct negotiations which were fruitful of direct results, for instance, the Anglo-German naval treaty. Gernutay opposed -military alliances, sought to localise conflicts and favoured pacts of non-aggression.