THE GERMAN NAZIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17844, 29 July 1932, Page 5

THE GERMAN NAZIS

THEIR POLICY AND AIMS EUROPEAN PEACE THREATENED MELBOURNE, July 19. The disquieting prediction was made by Commander H. B. Farncomb, R.A.N., when discussing the situation in Germany before the Constitutional Club, that logically the aims of the Nazi party of Germany must lead to war with nance and Poland. This, ho added', was a contingency which the rank and tile of the movement contemplated with tho utmost complacency. Tho Nazis believed they could win such a war, said the speaker. They claimed, however, that they -would effect their aims by diplomacy.

In many respects Germany was the hub of international relationships, and trouble at the hub was necessarily felt at the spokes and rim. A return to a stale of monarchy, which many desired in Germany to-day, could only bo consummated through the liitier (Nazi) party. This party owed its growth to the adverse economic and social conditions of Germany, and its popularity to unremitting and powerful propaganda. Every wave of depression washed up new adherents into ttie ranks. Thus the seed was sown, when the French and Belgians invaded tile Ruhr in 1923, and widespread distress followed, for the great access of strength in 1930, when dining straitened times the electors gave the movementi its first great success at tho polls. Since 1930 the party had continued to grow. What would be the outcome it was impossible to say,, and no one could predict what it would do if the reins of Government got into its hands.

Dealing with the programme of tho party, the speaker said the Nazis airbed at the formation of a new state, modelled largely on Fascist lines and republican in constitution. They wanted the right to cancel foreign treaties, since they owned no responsibility for the Great War, and they would have all Germanic peoples united in one territory, with adequate colonies to supply them with stores of raw materials and an outlet for surplus population. It would be safe to say that these things were wished by every German. But tho Nazis had many other aims that diverged from those of the Communists and others. Big business firms were to be put on a profitsharing basis. Anti-Semitism was a. feature of the programme, and Jews were not to have the same rights as Germans. Volunteer cadres were to take the place 6T the standing army of professional soldiers, and the press was to bo controlled solely by Germans. Nazi methods were robust—(Laughter)—as the casualty lists showed They were a semi-military organisation, and their propaganda was able and incessant. The universities were saturated with their doctrines, and their leader, Adolf Hitler, the humbly-born, lmd in his ranks a son of the former Kaiser, as well as former admirals and generals, a striking phenomenon for a country that paid such respect to military rank, and a no less striking tribute to Hitler’s personality, THE GERMAN ELECTIONS DEFINITE RESULT UNLIKELY BERLIN. July 28. It is understood that the Jewish vote on Sunday wjll go to the Catholic Centre, which the Jews regard as the only party capable, by numbers and influence, of keeping the anti-Bcmitic-ism of the Hitlerites in check. Correspondents appear unanimous that Herr Hitler will not have an absolute majority.