DRIFT TO WAR?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 5

DRIFT TO WAR?

GERMAN PEOPLE ANXIOUS REACTION TO HITLER EVIDENCE OF DISCONTENT MINTSTER ’ S RESIGNATION (EJee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Feb. 4. noon.) £ LONDON, Feb.“ 3.

The Manchester Guardian points out that information received in London indicates that there is little enthusiasm in Germany for Herr Hitler's speech. The adult population is becoming nervous lest Germany should drift to war.

lu Berlin, another evidence of discontent is the resignation of the Minister of Posts and Transport, Baron von EltzRubcnach, who declined Herr Hitler's invitation to join the Nazi Party as he disapproved of the policy towards Catholics, wlio received a severe blow in south Bavaria, where 95 per cent of the parents voted in favour of undenominational schools, compared with 65 per cent favouring them last year.

The ecclesftistical authorities in Munich have issued a statement protesting against the methods by which' the Nazi victory was obtained, alleging illegitimate pressure. The Nazis’ first spectacular incursion to the Foreign Office is announced with the appointment of Herr Bolile as head of a department to organise the Nazi Party in foreign countries. The French writer, “Pertinax,” states that the French Government will- prevent Herr Rohle’s agents abusing the diplomatic and consular privileges which Herr Hitler has now conferred on them. , .