NAZI POWER SPREADS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22114, 18 November 1933, Page 14

NAZI POWER SPREADS

STRENGTH IN RUMANIA ANTI-SEMITIC TIRADES. LONDON, November 4. Nazism is spreading eastward, writes Mr R. Bernays, a Liberal member of the House of Commons, in the NewsChronicle, on his return from a visit to Bucharest, the Rumanian capital The Nazis in Rumania polled 200,,000 votes in the elections of 1931, but since Herr Hitler’s advent to power, heavily subsidised agents have arrived to reorganise the Rumanian Nazis, who draw their strength from almost identical sources with the German. 'The main driving force is anti-Semi-tism. The same tirades are heard against the Jews, who number in Rumania 800,000. It Is alleged that the Jews have got all the best jobs, that they control the newspapers, monopolise the Bucharest Bar and dominate entertainments. The Nazis similarly declare that they are not opposed to Jews inhabiting their old Kingdom in Rumania, but to Polish and Russian immigrants, who are buying the estates of farmers who were ruined by the war, at starvation prices. ’ Also, the Nazis attack the politicians, and in this they are on fairly safe ground when they allege corruption and tax evasion, and the diversion of public money to parjfcy funds, with the result that the Treasury is perpetually insolvent. Mr Bernays adds that the most alarming feature of the movement is panGermanisnv especially among Germanspeaking Transylvanians. Residents of Translyvania, which formerly was part of Hungary, now regard themselves as “Germania Irredenta.” Nazi • agents are secretly teaching them to look to Germany for deliverance, as they are teaching Germans in Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and Czechoslovakia, which is all part of the German plan for a country stretching from the North Sea to the Black Sea. Nevertheless, King., Carol of Rumania realises that this new “Drang Nach Osten ” endangers his monarchy. He is determined to make every effort lo frustrate it. The Week-End Review draws attention to the accumulation of reports that the Chancellor of Austria, Dr Dolfuss, is secretly negotiating with the Nazis in Austria and in Berlin. Dr Dolfuss is Nazi at heart and he is beginning -to realise that he cannot long maintain his own brand <ff Fascism against Nazi pressure.