NEW GUARD LEADER
IMPRESSIONS ABROAD , NAZIS AND FASCISTS SYDNEY, Aug. 3. ’ “I am satisfied that Australia is the best country in the world, but we must haVe enough sense to develop it properly,” said Mr. Etie Campbell, leader of the New Guard, on his return to Sydney by the Oronsay yesterday, after seven months abroad. Mr.- Campbell said that he was convinced that no movement like that of the Nazis in Germany was .needed in Australia, where the political situation was very different. The people of Germany, continued Mr. Campbell, were not merely submitting to Nazi rule. They were unquestionably behind Herr Hitler, who was regarded by many alinost as a deity. Everywhere one saw ex-ser-vice men and youths in uniform bearing the swastika emblem, and with guns at their hips. Much had been said about the persecution of the Jews, but there was no real suppression, and if they rvere being persecuted, it was by the people, and not by the Government. It must be remembered, added Mr. Campbell, that Germany had been on the brink of a Communist revolution, and it had been necessary to take action against many prominent Jews who were also prominent Communists-. Germany realised that the Jews were the real rulers of Russia. The German Nazis and the Italian Fascists, said Mr. Campbell, wore essentially the same. They merely illustrated the application of the same principle to two different nations. Fascism had made a wonderful difference to Italy. He had not seen so much cleanliness and apparent prosperity anywhere else, nor had he seen bettor dressed citizens. In England, continued Mr. Campbell, the fact that he was leader of the New Guard had been a passport everywhere. He had been amazed to find the movement so well understood and so popular. In Germany he had also been asked many questions. British Fascism was not so strong as the New Guard, but was growing rapidly. They were facing the same problems there, but the physical need was not so great. •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 7
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