GERMANY DEFENDED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 11

GERMANY DEFENDED

MINISTER’S SEANCE 200 JOURNALISTS ATTEND EXCITEMENT AT GENEVA (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Sept. 29, 3 p.m.) GENEVA, Sept. 28.

The Australian Press Association says that fulfilling his job as Minister nl Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels bold a seance this afternoon which caused greater excitement- than the proceedings of all the commissions together. Fully 200 journalists, representing the press of the world, accepted invitations to the distant hotel where the Germans are staying. Cards of entry were closely scrutinised by a hefty bodyguard lining the hotel entrance. There was a tense silence when Dr. Goebbels rose ami read an address on National Socialist Germany and her contribution to world peace, lie read the address quietly, but occasionally with the ringing tones and flashing eyes of the fanatic, lie made such a- quiet, moderate, plausible defence of the new Germany that one wondered whether all the stories of cruelties and ill-treatments were a dream. Dr. Goebbels said the concentration camps were only used to convert antisocial leaders into useful citizens. The camps were open to foreigners’ inspection. It was unjust and short-sighted to infer that Germany desired war more than any other nation. Germany wanted peace for the solution of the economic crisis.

Discussing foreign anxiety regarding Jews, Dr. Goebbels said they had become the absolute masters of the Ger* man press, literature, theatre, cinema, medical and legal professions, and Stock Exchange, and were the rulers of Parliament and parties. This excess of Jewish influence had been dealt with by legal and humane methods. The Government had acted in Europe’s best interests, erecting a solid wall against anarchy, chaos, and Bolshevism.