HITLER’S GERMANY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 102, 31 March 1936, Page 7

HITLER’S GERMANY

INFERENCE FROM THE POLLS. HER. FOREIGN POLICY. STIFFENING TOWARDS ITALY. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) Received March 31, 9.25 a.m. BERLIN, March 30. Tile German Press comment on the election result can bo summed up in the phrase: “Germany is Hitler’s.” The Ministry of Propaganda denies that blank papers counted as pro-Hit-ler votes.

Romo official circles expect Herr Hitler s attitude to stiffen as a result of the election. Germany is reported to have stopped exports .of coal and raw materials to Italy, and demanded payment in gold of outstanding debts. AN “UNREAL 7 “MAJORITY. BRITISH PRESS VIEW. LONDON, March 30. The German provisional figures for the German election are: Total electorate, 45,408,191; for Hen- Hitler, 44.389,140; against Herr Hitler, 342,898;- abstainers, 476,153. Tlie “Ja” vote is thus 97.75 per cent, of the whole electorate. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says that the anti-Hitler vote consists of invalid or spoilt papers. 2'he new Reichstag will probably number exactly 700. Herr Hitler, shortly after midnight, was serenaded by choirs singing the couplet:— . “Dearest 'leader, show your head, For even you must go to bed.”

Herr Hitler duly reappeared on the balcony and was greeted with wild shouts of “Heil” from scores of thousands. The Fuhrer, evidently under the influence of deep emotion, strode swift • to the centre of the balcony and .ised liis arm in saint/- He repeated this from other port r the balcony in order to be visit. > the remainder of the crowd. Banas played “Deutschland Über Alles” and the “Horst Wessel” song, the multitude fervently joining in. Herr Hitler received the election committee, headed by Dr Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, and thanked them. Dr Goebbels has ordered the whole population to hang out flags today in celebration of the triumph. The News-Chronicle, in a leader, says that the monstrous size of the German election majority proves its unreality. It is inconceivable that so vast a mass of electors, except under pressure, could so nearly approach unanimity. PRAYERS FOR FUHRER. SERVICE AT ST. PAUL’S. LONDON, March 29. The Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr W. R. Matthews, included Herr Hitler in the prayers at to-night’s service as among those who bore the burden of making great national decisions. He explained afterward that the prayer was not intended as a reply to the Liverpool clergy’s action. A cable dated March 24 stated that a mild storm had arisen through the Dean of Liverpool Cathedral omitting on the previous Sunday night the usual prayer for Cabinet guidance on the ground that the proposal to send British troops to the Rhineland was monstrous and unjustifiable. The Bishop (Rt. Rev. A. A. David) explained that he was not consulted. He agreed with the main idea of a protest, but stated that it was not happily expressed.