HITLER'S HALO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 9

HITLER'S HALO

SETTING FOR SPEECH GERMANY'S FESTIVAL DAY NAZI LEADERS' ADDRESSES GLORIFICATION OF THE REICH By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 31, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 80 Herr Hitler will address the Greater German Reichstag at 7 p.m. to-day, Greenwich mean time (7 a.m. Tuesday, New Zealand time) at the Kroll Opera House, Berlin. The speech, which will mark the sixth anniversary of his accession to power, will be broadcast throughout Germany and relayed all over the world. Loud speakers have been installed every few yards in the city area. It will be a day of celebration in Germauv, starting with band displays and demonstration marches in all cities and towns. The stage effects for Herr Hitler's speech include concealed flood-lighting behind an eagle with a wing-span of 30ft., which will throw an artificial sunbeam on a pleated silk backeloth, producing a gigantic halo around the Fuehrer. "The Great Awakening" The blure of Nazi brass bands and the shrilling of fifes playing patriotic airs in the beflagged streets awakened citizens at 6 a.m. to-day, the sixth anniversary of Nazi accession to power, which in the official programme, in accordance with the custom of naming each anniversary as a milestone in Nazi history, is designated "The Day of the Great Awakening," in commemoration of the absorption of Austria and Sudetenland. Field-Marshal Goering, in the course of a statement, said: "The six years since Herr Hitler took the leadership in his strong hands weigh more heavily in German history than centuries. Germany in 1033 was enchained by the Versailles Treaty and war. not even sovereign in her own territory. The Greater German Reich now rises in the world most firmly knit into a block of steel. Her eighty million are now free and her armed forces watch over their independence." " Revolt of Youth " Dr. Goebbels, in a broadcast to the children of Germany, said: "We can scarcely think to-day what would have happened to Germany without the Fuehrer and the Nazis, who, some say, accomplished miracles; but those who have achieved the rejuvenation of Germany know it was the revolt of youth against parliamentarianism and party strife which secured the result." On the eve of Herr Hitler's speech a section of the press adopts an antiBritish tone owing to anger, aroused by the goodwill appeal made by Mr. Chamberlain, which, to the resentment of persons in the highest quarters, thousands of Germans heard, says the Berlin correspondent of the Times. Herr Hitler is expected sharply to retort, but the remainder of the speech will probably not be sensntional. General von Epp, addressing an economic conference, categorically demanded the return of the former German colonies, says the Munich correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.