NAZI REGIME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 15

NAZI REGIME

DISTURBING FACTOR MR. F. MILNER’S OPINION That the general leadership and especially tin' foreign policy of tlie Nazi regime in Germany constituted a .most disturbing factor in the present, international outlook was tlie subject of an address by Mr. F. Milner, vector of the Waitaki High School, to country girls attending an Educational Week in Oaniavn. He. described Hitler as a paranoiac. and utiefed a warning that world freedom depended solely upon the combined efforts of democratic institutions, unhappily confined to relatively few countries of the world. It was an impressive and disturbing, fact, said Mr. Milner, that Britain had been forced to abandon her policy of disarmament and to review her attitude toward collective security. Hitler had made it perfectly clear that the Nazis despised democratic liberties. What was potentially the greatest military power in the world was outside the League ot Nations waiting for an opportunity to manifest its might and vindicate its arms. Whether they regarded the menace of Hitler as a child of Olemeiiceau s cynicism or not, the fact remained that a* secular schism between Germany and Franco was to-day the world s greatest international problem. They should not forget that HitlU had been sublimated to the very position of the deity by the emotionalism of modern Germany, said Mr. Mdner. Britain’s iniluence was now concentrated on bridging the chasm between France and Germany, because that was the pi'otal • factor in the world’s ferment, but the outlook was none too favourable.