ARMING "FOR PEACE"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 9

ARMING "FOR PEACE"

POLICY OF GERMANY NAZI POLICY DEFENDED COLOGNE, Jan. 27. Dr. Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, has just completed a rapid tour of the K'hineland, where he spoke 'first in Cologne and then in his birthplace, Rheydl. His main purpose appears to have been to preach reassurance and combat dissatisfaction by promising that though the situation was, in his own words, "10n per cent in order" today, it would be incomparably better in the future. There were, he admitted, "certain minor inconveniences," but "in 10 years' time these little difficulties will be pleasant recollections, for then we shall have success before our eyes." The Minister censored 'his own speech out of all recognition before allowing it; to be printed in the German .press. The following passages, among others, were entirely suppressed:— "If we hear an aeroplane at night," he said, "we know tiial it is a German aeroplane. Foreigners ask' howit is all paid for. Every man helps to pay, and we are proud of it. If a regiment marches' past,.' you can say: 'This is my army, ,: ' We were not cowards in tho'.past'when we assumed power, and we .shall, not be in the future." ... THE LOCARNO PACT • As this speech was made in the demilitarised R'hinelnnd zone, the neutrality of which is guaranteed by the Locarno Bad, ■ Dr. Goebbels' exact meaning.here is the subject of much speculation. There are no German troops in this area. Only last week hints were 'thrown out in Berlin that the Locarno Pacts have outworn their utility. "Our programme," he continued, "is not yet complete. 1 can only say what I have said to show you what is coming. We are now- playing the Overture, and it is one with many light

mot-it's. "One only takes the world into one's confidence vv'Jicn one lias a' fait accompli to show. Had we revealed tho/s'tory of our army prematurely, other armies might have marched in. We worked, and nobody was able to pry. '"lf we had believed in the League of Nations," Dr. Goebbels explained, "we. s'hould not have rearmed. But we do not believe that tho League will 'bring peace! Our motto is 'Double sewn is stronger.' "