NAZI MENACE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 221, 15 April 1933, Page 5

NAZI MENACE

TRENCHANT ATTACK MADE Sir Austen Chamberlain Hits Out SITUATION ONE OF ANXIETY Press Association—Copyright London, April 14. —Sir Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons made a trenchant attack on Germany. "Frankly I view the present situation in Europe with gravs anxiety," he said. "I cannot pretend to conceal the state of uncertainty in which the world has been left concerning what was actually proposed or agreed at Rome. What has passed in Germany seems to me to render this a singularly inopportune moment to talk about revision of treaties."

Amid cheers Sir Austen asked, "What is this new spirit of German nationalism? It is the worst of the old Prussian gineers were implicated. He also admitImperialism with added savagery, pride and exclusiveness. No subjects not of pure Nordic birth can have equality of rights and citizenship in the nation to which they belong. Are you going to discuss revision of treaties with a Government like that? (Loud cheers). Will you dare to put another pole under the wheel of such a Government? As long as Germany is affected by this narrow, exclusive spirit, which says it is a crime to be in favour of peace and a crime to be a Jew, that is not the Germany to which we can afford to make concessions. Before you can' disarm or urge others to disarm you must see a Germany whose mind is turned to peace and who will use equality of status not to menace the safety of others." "So surely as Germany acquires military equality, while her grievances are unredressed and while she is in the present temper, so surely will we be within measurable distance of a renewal of a general European war," said Mr. Winston Churchill.

Vatican Support Refused VON PAPEN AND GOERING VISIT ROME Press Association— Copyright Received To-day, 31 a.m. London, April 14— The Daily Mail's Rome correspondent says the Pope is receiving Captain Von Papon and General Goerbg, but refused the Vatican's support for the reformation of the German Catholic Centre Party on a different basis, enabling it to support, Herr Adolf Hitler's Government. He also declined to conclude a general concordat with the German Reich as a whole, replacing the three existing ones with Prussia, Baravia and Baden, saying the Vatican pre. [era 1o maintain separate relations with German States than with the Centra!

Government. JEWISH PROFESSORS DISMISSED Received To-day, 11 a.m. Berlin. April 11.—A number of prominent Jewish professors in German universities, including Professor Bonn, also Lederer Kelsen, have been granted leave of absence, winch is tantamount to dismissal. All professors and teachers in universities and high schools will bo given a qucstionaire calculated to reveal whether they are purely oL Auynn origin, otherwise they Will be dismissed. The German Press Association has expelled Jews and Marxists. SUPPORT FOR PEACE PLAN Received To-day, 10 a.m. fully ac-four-Power pact. General Gocrihg told the newspapers thf.t he hoped its spirit would not be modified in view of Hitler's declaration that it is the only means of giving JMirope peace for several decades. He added- "My visit is for the purpose of intensifying ltalo German air communications."