BRITAIN AND NAZIS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 241, 12 May 1933, Page 5

BRITAIN AND NAZIS

IHERR ROSENBERG'S VISIT i

J Conversation With Sir John | Simon I . I FEELING AROUSED BY PERSECUTIONS - i Polite But Unfriendly Talk I British Official Wireless. Rushy. May 10.

Questioned with regard to Herr Rosenberg's visit to discover British feeling toward the Nazis. Sir John Simon said: "The German Embassy requested that this gentleman should be received at the Foreign Office. The Permanent UnderSecretary saw him on Monday and I h=d a conversation with him yesterday. He gave me some information as to recent events in the internal nolicy of Germanv and I explained to him with equal frankness the prevailing sentiment in Britain on the subject." An unknown person arriving at the Cenotaph early in the morning slashed and destroyed Herr Rosenberg's wreath and then drove rapidly away. Later another similar incident occurred. A member of the British Legion and a prospective Labour parliamentary candidate, drove up and removed the wreath as "a deliberate protest against the desecration of the cenotaph by Hitler's hireI ling, also against the present barbarism lin Germany." It is becoming clear that Sir John I Simon dealt with Herr Rosenberg as j frankly as did Mr. Norman Davis. The Foreign Secretary told him plainly that j the Nazi persecution of the Jews had ! aroused strong feeling in Britain and I produced a nation-wide reaction. i Herr Rosenberg expressed regret and ' assured Sir John that the situation was j becoming normal, but he insisted firmly I that Germany would brook no interferi ence in its internal affairs. Any such ini terference would only aggravate the exi tremist elements. The talk is described in influential political circles as polite but unfriendly.

Bonfire of Literature

Press Association PoPvrl.eht. 'Berlin, May 11. The biggest bonfire of books since the Middle Ages was lighted in the Opera Square at midnight. University students and Nazis committed 20,000 Marxist, Pacifist, Jewish and other "un-German" books to the flames. The square was crowded.

Painfully Surprised

ROSENBFRG ON WREATH INCIDENT

pr~Qq Association. —Cnoyrieht. Received Todav, 9.30 a.m. London, May 11. Herr Rosenberg say? the wreath he placed on the Cenotaph was in honour of fallen Britons. "I am painfully surprised nt the sad incident. The British public will readily understand how I feel," he said.

SPACE ON CF.NOTAPH

Terse Inscription on Chaplet Pr«s.« Association.—Copyright. Received Today, 10.35 a.m. London, May 11. Captain J. Sears, who was charged at Bow Street with stealing Herr Rosenberg's wreath was discharged under the Offenders' Probation Act and fined 40s for wilful damage to the wreath which was thrown into the Thames, but later recovered. The space on the Cenotaph occupied by Herr Rosenberg's wreath was filled this evening by a chaplet inscribed: "Placed here in sincercity by a Briton resenting the insult to our glorious dead." The Star asks whether Herr Hitler realised that the wreath ''jointly honoured Jews, who died for England, whose names occupy 49 pages of the British Jewry v book of honour.

Socialist Found Dead

BODY BESIDE RAILWAY Press Association—Copyright Received Today, 1 p.m. Berlin, May 11. The body of a Socialist Reichstag deputy, Herr Bredermann, was found on the railway line at Recklinghausen. The police say it is a case of suicide.