NAZI PLANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22102, 4 November 1933, Page 5

NAZI PLANS

HELP FOR THE UNEMPLOYED “SADLY AMATEURISH” HUGE PROPAGANDA SCHEME. (Fbom Odr Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 21. All the vast schemes Germany is to adopt to give relief to the unemployed in the winter The Times describes as “sadly amateurish,” House to Louse collections are to be organised over the whole of urban and rural Germany; specially necessitous areas will be “ adopted ” by the more fortunate towns, as places in the devastated areas of France have been adopted by British towns; systematic deductions will be made from wages and salaries; and regular transfers from their bank accounts to a central fund are to be authorised'by the richer citizens. Workmen are to -contribute approximately the earnings of one hour’s -work a month. Moreover, on the first Sunday of every month no German will be expected to spend more than sixpence on his mid-day meal, and the money thereby saved is to swell the relief fund. “In themselves, these plans,” says The Times, “ reduce the spending power of .those who might increase employment. They make no single contribution to the extension of work. They create no wealth. They can do nothing to ameliorate the economic life of the nation. They simply erect a vast eleemosynary system. The scheme will no doubt help to feed the unemployed during the worst months of the year, and the first response to Herr Goebbels’s appeal has been remarkable, voluntary lump subscriptions to the' fund having amounted to over two million marks on the first day. The greatest sympathy’ for the. German unemployed will be felt in-other countries besides Germany, for their lot is likely to be harder than any; but it may be permissible to point out that no policy of 'self-sufficiency,’ so dear to Nazi theorists, can possible solve their unemployment problem. It may be argued rather that the one way bj' which prosperity can return is by the revival of international trade;. that_ the_ greatest obstacle of all to that revival is the lack of international confidence; and that the greatest single cause of lack of confidence in Europe is the restless scheming of German foreign policy.” NEW MANNERS -AND MORALS. On October 1 the Nazis will begin a two months’ propaganda campaign, in the course of which they will hold 150,000 public meetings. All the party orators are called upon to address fifteen meetings if in high office, and twenty-five if not thus preoccupied. Announcing the campaign at a mass meeting in the sports palace in Berlin, Herr Goebbels said:— “The entire nation has now been clutched by the iron clamps of the Nazi organisation. Whether we are already in a materially happy position does not matter so much. Later generations will judge, not by the question whether they had enough to eat, but by the historical value of their achievements.” A call to “ a radical rebirth of German womanhood from the clear springs of Teutonic-German national motherhood ” is issued by Frau Emma Wagner on behalf of the Nazi Women’s Front.

“We know,” she writes, “that a propaganda campaign only has sense if it leads to new manners and new morals. The'decision 1 as to our racial future lies with the individual woman, wlm must again prepare for man a'home in her heart and awaken I his desire for paternity.” \ Frau; Wagner is confident that the “ solution of the woman question” on these principles will bring with it _“ a profoundly moral reform of the relations of the sexes to one another.” A LONELY VOICE.

A daring protest against the exclusion of persons of Jewish blood from the Christian ministry was made at the convocation of the church of Hesse-Nassan by Pastor Amborn, the leader of the “ Young Reform Movement.” He said that the totality claim of the Nazi state'wag limited by “ the absolute totality claim’ of „our ‘ eternal King!" Obedjence’ to God must take precedence, over,'obedience to men. .; ’ . . V The “ Aryan clause ” might have its justification for the State, but. it must be rejected by The Church, since it was incompatible with the truth of the Apostles Creed. He had been urged_ to make a sacrifice in the cause of unity, but obedience to Divine law wa s paramount.

The representatives of the Nazi German Christians replied that; the Church could not be spared the Aryan programme, for this was aimed at "cosmopolitan Jewry, which had'been too aggressive in Germany, and had brought the country to the brink of Bolshevism.’? : Against the single dissentient voice of Pastor Amborn, convocation adopted the “Aryan clause,” which provides that a person with as much as 25 per cent, of Jewish blood in his veins may not hold an office in: the Church, however humble this may be.

HERR AT GENEVA. As Minister for Air Genera] Goering has forbidden the carrying of cameras in aeroplanes over German territory without his express permission. This prohibition is justified by “ the increased irnportance of aerial pictures in view of the national defence.”. The interesting, announcement is made that- Herr-Goebbels, the Minister for Propaganda, will be one of Germany’s delegates at. the meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva this month. The Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, will head the delegation, which will also include Germany’s permanent representative on the council, Minister von Keller. The substitute delegates will be Herr von Gaus, ex-Secretary of State; Baron von Rheinboden, and the Minister at Berne, Herr von Weizsacher.