HITLER'S SPEECH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 13 March 1936, Page 5

HITLER'S SPEECH

PASSIONATE APPEAL FOR MUTUAL REGARD UNDERSTANDING AND RE= CONCILIATION (Received 13th March, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, 12th March. A Karlsruhe message says seventy special trains helped to amass a crowd of one hundred thousand at Karlsruhe, the garrison town nearest the French border, to hear Herr Hitler’s first campaign speech in support of his peace plan. Continuous cheering for ten minutes necessitated the sounding of a bugle to command silence. Herr Hitler declared that lie had en- ( deavoured to instil reason into German relations with foreign countries. There was no reason to try to suppress the individuality of any nation. lie passionately appealed to nations for mutual regard as a believer in the brotherhood and neighbourship of nations. France and Germany must he on an absolutely equal footing as the first essential. There must be understanding and reconciliation. He would rather build a workman’s home than provide the cost of a gun. If others thought they could hinder Germany’s progress they would find Germans ready to resist. They once solemnly signed a pact binding them to leave one frontier defenceless, bo long as the other side respected the pact Germany was ready to abide by it, but the pact had been betrayed. Germany had no intention of attacking France or Poland. Compared with the rest of the world Germany was a haven of peace. None more desired peace. She wanted nothing from other nations, and wished nothing better than to take out a patent for national socialism. She did not desire to export it. FRANCO’SOVIET PACT After a tirade against Communism, Hitler proceeded: — “I have drawn the only possible com elusion from the Franco. Soviet Pact by re-establishing our sovereignty. My offer of peace is greatest that could have been made by a German. There will not aL ways be a man able to offer peace at such a period. I hope the world has now realised that I am no superficial nonsense talker. I have made no offer that cannot be combined with my honour. I have not usurped my office, but hold it in trust from the German people, to whom I now appeal, hoping the hour has come when Germans will be accepted into the brotherhood of nations as an equal. We shall die, but Germany must live. I assure you nothing, absolutely nothing, will induce us to discard this regained sovereignty over the Rhine, land.” . A tornado of cheering ended with “Horst Weasel” song and “Deutschland Über Alles."