NAZI EXTREMISTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23227, 22 December 1938, Page 11

NAZI EXTREMISTS

GROWING OPPOSITION ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES WORLD-WIDE INDIGNATION CRITICISM MORE OPEN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received December 21, "11.20 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 21 It is evident that the conflict between extremists and moderates among the Nazis is increasingly acute, says the Australian Associated Press. It i's thought that a day of reckoning is not far distant. According to reports from all over the world indignation at the antiJewish pogroms has resulted in a strong movement of powerful interests for the removal of the worst fanatics. Criticism is certainly more open than at any time previously. Influential circles in London are receiving numerous letters from Germany expressing extraordinarily bold condemnation, and rumours of an impending purge are increasingly strong. It is stated that the position of Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, Herr Himinler, Chief of the Secret Police, and Herr von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, are threatened, also that Herr Hitler is not aware of the extent to which Dr. Goebbels and his confederates have carried the anti-Jewish measures. It is felt that the Fuehrer has been deliberately misled. He-now spends most of his time in seclusion at Berchtesgaden. Field-Marshal Goering has ordered the Minister of Economics, Dr. Funk, to speed up the four-year plan, empowering him to take on his own responsibility any measure he thinks fit for increasing Germany's economic strength, says the Berlin correspondent of the Times.