NAZI LEADERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 9

NAZI LEADERS

MEETING IN BERLIN p . SIGNS OF NERVOUSNESS P (Received January 5, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. <1 A message from Berlin says speculation is rife regarding Herr Hitler's sudden calling to Berlin of all the key men in the Nazi movement from all parts of Germany. Some were forced to return by air. The Leader-Chancellor summoned the leaders to a meeting in the Berlin State Opera House, in* which tho Reichstag has sat since the disastrous fire of January 30,1933. The meeting eventually was disclosed as a "solidarity demonstration." Soldiers and policemen closed Opera House Square to traffic. A body of 10,000 uniformed men lined Herr Hitler's route from the palace.

The Chancellor's "right-hand man," Herr Rudolf Hess, spoke, emphasising everybody's devotion to Herr Hitler and General Goering. Ho assured Herr Hitler that all -were ready to follow him "to life or death." He condemned the hostile press campaign. Herr Hitler acknowledged tha expressions of loyalty. A Nazi news agency ascribes tho assemblage to the necessity for stamping out lies in connection with the Saar plebiscite asserting that dissension was rife among the Nazi leaders. The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says the Nazi demonstration was held to impress the world in general and the population of the Saar in particular. The chief mover in the scheme was Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, whose growing nervousness in the face of recent rumours has been evident to all close observers. It was thought necessary to show that nothing is wrong with the State of Germany. Herr Hitler's speech revealed fear of persecution by hidden enemies. He said the same people who had been unjustly attacking the Nazi movement for 14 years with a flood of oilumnies were reverting to their old weapons. "It is essential," said Herr Hitler, "that our brothers who will return to us on January 13, after 15 years of courageous resistance, shall know they are returning to a worthy home. Those who have speculated on Germany's hereditary fault—disunity—will be wrong. No difficulties will be too much for our will, faith, decency, unity and co-operation. May Almighty God not only keep our people healthy, but give us a strong spirit to do justice to tho tasks with which we are confronted." WAR ON FREEMASONRY GRUESOME EXHIBITION WHAT VISITORS ARE TOLD (Received January 5. 12.35 n.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 4 The richly-furnished Freemasons' Hall at Nuremberg, which was closed a year ago with all the Lodges in Germany on the ground of anti-Nazi activities and that it was run by Jews, has been reopened as a chamber of horrors. Its rooms are filled with skeletons, death's heads and huge knives which it is stated Freemasons used.

Official guides escort visitors through the rooms explaining the "sinister antiGerman principles on which Masonic societies are based."

Admission is free as the exhibition is regarded as educational.