PEACE WANTED
GERMANY'S OBJECTS HONOUR AND PROSPERITY Peace, honour and prosperity are the three planks of Nazi Germany's programme, according to Professor Walter Mohr, director of the department of physics at the research institute for dairy science at Kiel University, who arrived £,t Auckland yesterday by the Niagara from Vancouver. Professor Mohr said that thoughts of war were very far from the German mind, and all armament activities were being undertaken rot for the sake of aggression, but to uphold Germany's honour. As an illustration of Hitler's, peaceful intentions there was the overture to France for a 50 years' peace. Fifty years, said Professor Mohr, was a very long term fcr a peace offer, and Germany had bee i disappointed at France's failure to accept it. Germany had nothing against France, just as it had nothing against Italy, or Great Britain, or any other nation. But a great number of the German people would like to see un alliance between their country and England. It would do much to stabilise peace and to increase the prosperity of both countries.
The Nazi occupation of the Rhineland was not to be taken as a warlike gesture, he said. This strip of land was historically Germany's. Its people were Germans. Honour £,nd the future prosperity and security of Germany demanded that it should be returned to the German Staie. Its occupation should not bo construed as an indication of a determination to expand; Hitler had given ro reason to believe that other territories were wanted. Certainly there was a feeling that colonies were needed, but this was no more than the feeling of other Powers. Hitler had to look to the welfare of his people, but be wanted peace above all things, so that prosperity could be obtained.
That some measure of this was being guaranteed under t;he present regime was indicated by the fact that hefore 1933 there were 6,ii00,000 unemployed. Since then the figures had dropped to under 2,000,000. Ir common with, the New Zealand Government, some difficulty had been experienced in persuading these people to go on to the land.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22512, 1 September 1936, Page 13
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350PEACE WANTED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22512, 1 September 1936, Page 13
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