NEW NAZI RITE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21480, 2 May 1933, Page 9

NEW NAZI RITE

MAY DAY PARADE DEDICATION TO SWORD VENGEANCE ON FRANCE TEXT OF A PRAYER OATH FOR INITIATES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 1, 8.5 p.m.) BERLIN, May 1 The Nazis expect 1,000,000 people to attend the May Day parade to-day. It is hoped that the expenses will be paid by the sale of badges, which will jield a net profit of 25 pfennigs each. The rite of "dedication to the,sword," whereby all the members of the Steel Helmets will he initiated when they teach the age of 17, will be inaugurated. It is hoped this will develop into universal national usage. This rite will begin with a religious service. The Steel Helmets then will form a square with the initiates in the' centre, while Arndt's "cry for vengeance against France" is sung. Then the initiates will take the following oath: "By the iron of the sword we swear to show ourselves worthy in the service of the German Fatherland. I Oh, Lord God, pour iron into our blood that in battle we may require the truo German manly courage to live and die." Finally eacli of the initiates will be decorated with the "Siegfried sword" and crowned with a garland of birch leaveß, The Nazis announce that the Steel Helmets cannot join the Hitlerites unless they resign from their own party. The announcement has dismayed the leaders of the Steel Helmets who are making desperate efforts to keep the organisation intact in spite of numerous defections.

SCHOOLS AND PRESS NAZIS TO CONTROL STATE EDUCATION ONLY (Received May 1, 5.25 p.m.) LONDON. May 1 The Berlin correspondent of the News Chronicle says the Nazis are preparing laws to close private schools and for Government control of the press. Journalists will be required to prove in addition to professional qualifications that they are " suitable in a moral and political sense." The Nazis, says the correspondent, want to end the private school system because they consider Nazi citizens can be moulded only in State schools under Nazi teachers.

STUDENTS' THREAT UNPOPULAR PROFESSORS FORCIBLE EXPULSION (Received May 1, 5.25 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, May 1 The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports that Nazi students' threat to expel by force such unacceptable professors as have not retired already has dismayed Germans who are indifferent to Jewish and Socialist persecution. Only the Nationalists, the Army and the President now prevent the Nazis from completely controlling Germany. LONDON FASCISTS SCENE IN PICCADILLY ANTI-JEWISH COMMENTS (Received May 1, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 1 There were remarkable scenes in Piccadilly Circus late last night. Seven Fascists selling copies of the Black Shirt (Fascists' newspaper) aroused the resentment of a big crowd by antiJewish comments. The Fascists will be charged with obstruction to-day. TREATMENT OF JEWS •—- STRANGE POLISH BROADCAST COMMONS DEBATE REPEATED WARSAW, April 30 One of the strangest broadcasts in history was conducted throughout Poland this evening when actors and actresses, representing members of the British House of Commons, reproduced the historic dobate of April 13, in which Major C. R. Attlee, • Sir Austen Chamberlain,, Major H. L. Nathan, Colonel J. C. Wedgwood, and Mr. Winston Churchill sharply criticised and condemned the treatment of Jews in Germany. by Nazis. The announcer described the appearance of the Chamber, and the " debate " followed, punctuated by cheei - s. The experiment was a remarkable piece of successful propaganda, as it was transmitted both in Polish and German. It is likely to arouse indignation in Germany.

FOUR YEARS' PLAN HITLER TO ANNOUNCE ECONOMIC LIFE REFORM LONDON, April '2O When Herr Hitler announces his four years' plan on May 1 it will be heralded with a display of fireworks which it is claimed will bo the "finest ever seen in Europe," says the Berlin correspondent of tho Daily Mail. The display will conclude with a cannonade, in which 60,000 explosions will rend the air. Herr Goebbels, one of tho Nazi leaders, speaking at Cologne, declared that Herr Hitler's plan includes a complete reform of Germany's economic life. "Liberalistic individualism must be stamped out," he said.