NAZI PROPAGANDA

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 242, 13 May 1933, Page 7

NAZI PROPAGANDA

i yisit of German Delegates HOUSE OF COMMONS \l DISCUSSION Press Association.—Copyright. British Wireless. Rugby, May 11. Replying in the House of Commons to a number of questions with reference to the arrival in England of two prominent members of the German Nazi movement, Herr Rosenberg and Hen- Thort, Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Home Affairs, said he understood Herr Rosenberg proposed to stay few days only. Herr Thort, who was a foreign newspaper correspondent, had been residing in England since 1930. They had not been asked . to give any undertaking to refrain from propaganda during their stay. Asked why different treatment had been accorded them from that accorded "other propagandists." Sir John said he did not think that was any difference In the treatment. Individual cases were considered on their merits.

Later Mr. George Lansbury, Labour leader, asked leave to move the adjournment of the House to discuss the admiision to Britain of certain German Fascist propagandists and the failure of the Home Secretary to obtain from them undertakings not to engage in propaganda. The Home Secretary intervened to remark that in view of the fact that the German Ambassador interested himself in the circumstances of the visit he saw no reason to make special arrangements.

The Speaker of the House having ruled that Mr. Lansbury's motion did not come within the standing orders, the hitter gave notice that he would, if time permitted, raise the question on a motion for adjournment. Reference was also made during the question to the episode which occurred regarding a wreath on the Cenotaph. An ■unknown person cut away from it the silk Swastika decorations and later it was taken away in a car and, it is understood, thrown into the Thames. As a "sequel an ex-officer, Captain Sears, who removed the wreath, was lined £2 for wilful damage to the wreath. Captain Sears said that the action was a "deliberate national protest," since Herr Hitler's Government was "fostering a feeling which many of our fellows lost their lives in fighting." The magistrate said he was not concerned with Captain Sears' private opinions, and his action was ill-mannered and improper. The space on the Cenotaph occupied by Herr Rosenberg's wreath was filled this evening by a chaplet inscribed, "placed here in sincerity by a Briton resenting an insult, to the glorious dead." The Star asks whether Herr Hitler realised that the wreath jointly honoured men who died for England, whose names occupy 49 pages of the British Jewry book of honour. Herr Rosenberg has issued a statement that Germany's strong measures

against the Communists have saved Central Europe and prevented the destruction of Western civilisation. May day was actually a peaceful festival.' showing tiiat the upheaval did not involve, the guillotining of thousands but represented the people's uprising. The discipline exnibiled was more remarkable because Hitlerism had lost 300 killed and 26,000 wounded in ton years of Marxist outrages. Nazi excesses were insignificant in view of the scale of the revolution. Germany wished no rearming of the world but hoped for growing ahglo-German understanding. Herr Rosenberg subsequently informed the Press that he was unable to say whetiier Mr. Ramsay Mae Donald and Mr. Stanley Baldwin had refused to see him. There was no time to see them because the official visits were over. He had ascertained clearly what the people thought, but there was no average feeling either way. The persecution of the , Jews was nothing compared with what the Nazis had undergone for 14 years. He himself had faced a former Government's bullets and been imprisoned. Only live Jews had been beaten: many more killings occurred in Chicago than in Ger-m.-n.v Replying to the Suns inquiry as to Herr Hitler's colonial intentions Herr Rosenberg said Germany must have colonies and intended to get them—probably six years hence When asked wnetner he desired Australian or New Zealand mandates he said he was aiming at Tanganyika and the African colonies. "AFFRONT TO HERR HITLF.R" Press Association -Copyright London, May U. The removal or Herr Rosenberg's wreath from the Cenotaph in London is regarded as an affront to the Chancellor (Herr Adolf Hitler) and Germany. The Frankfurter Zeitung declares England's world-wide reputation for treating guests decently has received a severe (Mow. The Eoei-i-.cn Zeitung says Germany exoccts the British Government to brand this offensiveness and formally disavow it.