NAZI GERMANY’S EFFICIENCY

Southland Times, Issue 23815, 12 May 1939, Page 17

NAZI GERMANY’S EFFICIENCY

“Disappointed With

Democracies” MR L. L. CORDERY’S TOUR OF EUROPE Comparisons showing German social and industrial conditions in very favourable light against those of the democracies were made by Mr U L. Cordery in a talk to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, of which society he was once president. The talk was given at a luncheon on Monday attended by many members, Mr Cordery re^™ e j from a tour of, Europe and the United States at the end of last year, “I differ very much from the statements in the Press about Germany, Mr Cordery said, “yet the backbone of the news is the truth, Germans will not in any circumstances admit the term ‘democracy’ as we use it; they say that the democracies are mere parliamentary states, I myself was very much disappointed with the democracies.” Britain was like a happy family muddling along, clearing up the dishes from one meal only when it was time for the next one, Some British factories were efficient, but many were mere repair shops, as in New Zealand. The French were an unhappy people, always with internal quarrels and disliking the British immensely. In the United States class hatred was beyond description. . The democracies were not conducting their affairs at all efficiently, said Mr Corc.ery. English fanning was deplorable, and in the south the countryside was going to ruin. Outhouses were dilapidated and land was overgrown with scrub. Germany, though, did not even waste land for fences. Long rows were farmed instead of blocks, and there were fences only in the cattle areas, German streets were always spotless, but in London and Paris they were littered with rubbish all the time. In Berlin, the police had the power to fine a jierson a mark on the spot for throwing down rubbish. “There was no need to talk in whispers about the regime, I found, said .Mr Cordery. “Germans spoke freely to me, I heard no words against the Fuhrer, only praise. Goebbels was criticized, and Goering was liked.” There was criticism for the treatment of the Jews, which was expected to rebound on Aryan Germany, 'pre Jewish problem, not the democracies, would make trouble for Germany if there was to be any, in the belief pf some Germans. Not a sign of the alleged bankruptcy of Germany was seen by Mr Cordery, Food was plentiful, and even better than that in Britain at times. He found out where all the unemployment had gone when he found a printing machine factory \mable to take more orders for two years, and a fabric factory booked up for five years. In Sweden there was a factory employing 5500 persons in three shifts making armaments solely for Britain. Britain, therefore, was overloaded with unemployed because they were pot trained for tfie work, Germany knew that she could not afford to go to war with Britain, and knew that it would mean annihilation for both nations, Mr Cordery said in conclusion. Germany knew that annihilation of the British and German regimes would mean no victory for either, and the result would merely be to allow Bolshevism to overrun the Continent. There was no chance of a war unless it arose by accident- or out of the action of England’s foolishly guided Press.