THE FIRST STEP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 December 1936, Page 5

THE FIRST STEP

GERMAN SELF-SUFFICIENCY PLAN { RATIONING THE NEW YEAR PUBLIC PERTURBED (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, 19th December. Christmas is likely to be the Germans’ last opportunity of unrestricted feasting for some time. Herr Hitler’s New Year greeting takes the form of huge crimson placards displayed throughout Germany instructing housewives to register their requirements of but'ter, lard, margerine, dripping, suet and oils. This is the first .step in the fulfilment of the four year self-sufficiency plan. Rationing will begin on Ist January. Nazi officials are at present taking a house to house census in order to discover the needs of each family. The public is most perturbed, recalling the rigours attending the wartime issue of food cards. It is understood that the bakers have been instructed not to sell bread before it is twenty-four hours old, because fresh bread does not satisfy hunger as stale does. urgency"oTthe plan 1 A LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT’S POLICY LONDON, 20th December. “The Times” Berlin correspondent says that General Goering was holding a conference of leading representatives of German industry regarding the four year self-sufficiency plan when Herr Hitler unexpectedly ar- . rived and delivered a speech exhorting industry to fulfil its duties under the plan. Herr Hitler explained that he had entrusted General Goering with the execution of the plan because for Goering the word "impossible” did not exist It is reported that the purpose of the conference was to impress on industrialists the urgency of the plan owing to the lack of confidence with which the Government’s whole economic policy is viewed in business circles generally.