HITLER'S TRIUMPH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 13

HITLER'S TRIUMPH

REACTION IN GERMANY PEOPLE NOT IMPRESSED CONCERN AT HIGH PRICES FOOD SHORTAGE PROBLEMS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Oct. 24 Most of the German people are not impressed with Herr Hitler's latest coup. They are more concerned about the shortage of butter, the lack of eggs, the low wages and the high prices, says the Berlin correspondent of the News Chronicle. Nazis complain of lack of gratitude and assert that non-Nazis have not responded to Herr Hitler's triumph, but the fact is that repugnance to war is as pronounced here as elsewhere in Europe, Months must pass before the mass of Germans forgive Herr Hitler for bringing them to the brink of war over a mere question of procedure. Herr Hitler's coup has not increased his popularity. Germans to-day are preoccupied not with expanding frontiers but with the problem of existence. "I asked a large employer," Btates tho correspondent, "if workers would return to pre-Nazi conditions of political and social freedom if given the choice, and he replied, 'I think 50 per cent of my own people would say yes, 25 per cent would be uncertain and the remainder, remembering former unemployment, would prefer their present conditions.' "I fancy a poll of the whole of German people would give a similar result. National Socialism is not yet rooted throughout Germany."

POPE ASSAILED SPEECH ON NAZI POLICY BITTER NEWSPAPER ATTACK "REKINDLING OF DISTRUST* BERLIN, Oct. 24 Attacking the speech of the Pope, in which he condemned the Nazi policy toward the Catholic Church, the newspaper Dor Angriff characterises it as a monstrous accusation. It declares that Herr Hitler is not seeking supremacy over, but co-opera-tion with civilised Powers. "British and French statesmen," the paper adds, "testify to the Fuehrer's sincerity, but the Pope rekindles distrust. This attitude in a man permitting himself to be honoured as the ,father of mankind carries its own judgment. It is blind hatred."