NAZIS’ EXCESSES CONDEMNED

Southland Times, Issue 23664, 12 November 1938, Page 7

NAZIS’ EXCESSES CONDEMNED

Outspoken Comment In London Press OUTRAGES APPARENTLY ORGANIZED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Independent Cable Service) (Received November 11, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. The Times in an editorial says: “No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings, beatings and blackguardly assaults upon defenceless and innocent people which disgraced that country yesterday. Either the German authorities were party to this outbreak or their power over public order and a hooligan minority is not what it is proudly claimed to be.”

The Times then refers to the accusations against Mr Winston Churchill, Mr R. A. Eden and Major A. Duff Cooper

in the newspaper Der Angriff as instigators of the murder of Dr von Rath, a secretary at the German Embassy in Paris, who was shot by a young Polish Jew, and says: “It is quite another matter when foreign countries and their citizens are wantonly involved, against their will, in the concern of another. This attempt to implicate British politicians in the murder of Dr von Rath is not the work of an obscure sheet but of a journal controlled by the Minister of Propaganda (Dr Josef Goebbels). It is much worse than merely ludicrous; it is wholly intolerable, and it demands official notice and should receive it without delay.” The Daily Telegraph says that the programs bear every mark of careful organization and official condonation. Otherwise, it says, it would be impossible to explain simultaneous outbreaks throughout the country at the curious hour of 2 a.m., and the impotence of the most efficient police force in.the world. “The German revenge has been one of the most terrible things in the present century,” says The Daily Telegraph.

The News Chronicle claims that there is no basis for such savagery, and asks: “Can (here be any hope of an understanding between the leaders of Germany and the people of this country?”