PREPARED FOR WAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 7

PREPARED FOR WAR

CLAIMS OF NAZI LEADERS NATION'S FOOD SUPPLIES ARMY TO ENSURE PEACE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Unitud Press Assn.) BERLIN, Jan. 25. Dr. Darre, Nazi .Minister of Agriculture, frankly admits in an interview with' the newspaper Nachtausgabe, that ho is organising German agriculture for the emergency of war. "Germany lost the World War because sho had insufficient food supplies," lie said "Yet in 1914 Germany had a larger productive agricultural area than to-day. My task therefore, was to secure Germany's food supplies, despite the loss of important territories, and 1 have succeeded in extraordinary lime. We have done our utmost to make a repetition of the 1918 catastrophe impossible."

Dr. Darre said ho did not think Germany should live entirely autocratically, but "the German national policy demanded a united agricultural organisation for the coming of danger.

"We are only playing an overture, like one of Wagner's, with many leading motifs." declared Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, in the presence of 10. COO people at Halle, Rhineland. "We could have told our story of the army in 1953. but had we done so, other armies would probably have- marched in. "One informs the world only when there is an accomplished fact, with cannons behind it. We do not want to be a second Abyssinia and have civilisation brought to lis with aeroplanes. If we want an army by a certain date, we need not think the people will shrink from a food shortage. The army is not for war, but for peace and to see that the worker works for peace."