NAZI DESIRE FOR PEACE

Southland Times, Issue 23406, 13 January 1938, Page 5

NAZI DESIRE FOR PEACE

EFFECTS OF WAR REALIZED LESSONS OF SPAIN AND CHINA HERR HITLER’S MESSAGE TO DIPLOMATS (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright) (Received January 12, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, January 12. In emphasizing Germany’s desire for peace, in reply to the good wishes of diplomats at the customary New Year reception, Herr Hitler expressed a feeling undoubtedly existing in all ranks and classes, says the Berlin correspondent of The Times. Despite the steadily growing army and the great armament drive few of the rank and file do not feel sincerely that the Government is determined to avoid war. This general desire for peace is more confirmed as the effects of war are seen more clearly from abroad. The fall of Teruel to the Spanish Government forces is taken to heart as a grim and depressing reminder that with modem weapons almost any war is likely to be prolonged.

The news from the Far East is no more comforting for the general public. While officially the invasion of China is still hailed as supremely glorious there persists the uneasy thought in many quarters that Japan is laying waste a former good customer of Germany and is also weakening herself. Herr Hitler in his reply to the diplomats said that peace was his aim and that of the Reich Government. “Germany is striving,” he said, “to give the German people the happiness of a brotherly united community by smoothing away the social and economic contrasts which threaten the inner unity of the nation and by promoting all healthy good movements for increasing the material as well as the spiritual well-being of the entire people. “We wish our relations with other countries to be guided by the same consideration. It becomes clearer daily that there can be no human happiness without peace. Mankind, even above the din of armaments, calls for peace.” The new Japanese Ambassador to Berlin (Dr Shigenori Tono) presented his credentials to Herr Hitler, who referred to a “further deepening of the hearty friendship which has sprung up so happily between Germany and Japan.”

EXTREMISTS ADOPT NEW PROGRAMME CLAIM TO SUPREME WORLD IDEOLOGY (Received January 12, 8.30 pjn.) LONDON, January 12. The Munich correspondent of The Dally Telegraph says that a conference of Nazi regional leaders held at Santhofem, a new training centre, adopted a four-point programme foreshadowing the return of more aggressive of the party, silent since the purge in 1934, to the forefront.

The programme demands: (1) Supremacy for,the Nazi world ideology. (2) A radical change in the economic system, delegating changes of policy to the German people instead of industrial patriarchs. (3) The creation of a Nazi school system based on training in the national ideal of service to the community and the race. (4) Totalitarian rights in all spheres of public health. •The German Freedom Party has sent circulars to foreign journalists consisting of two documents. The first explains its aims, including the re-estab-lishment of State law, the publication of a Budget, self-government, freedom of conscience and freedom of the Press. The second document lampoons the Nazi leaders. . . Official quarters express the opinion that the circulars probably came from abroad.