AN ARMY FOR PEACE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 40, 27 January 1936, Page 6

AN ARMY FOR PEACE

Germany Boasts of Efficient

\ Forces.

! AGRICULTURE ORGANISED FOR ! WAR SUPPLIES. i . j j Press Associatio.n —Cooyrieht. Berlin, Jan. 25. | Herr Darre, Nazi Minister of Agriculture, frankly admitted ,in an interview with the newspaper Navhtausgabe that he is organising German agriculture for the emergency of war. "Germany lost the Grea«t War because she had insufficient food supplies," he said. "Yet in 1914 German»v had a larger productive agricultural area than to-day. My task therefore wiis to secure Germany's food supplies, despi'te the loss I of important territories, and I have sucj ceeded in an extraordinary time. We I have clone our utmost to make a repc- | tition of the 1918 catastrophe* impossible." Herr Darre said he did not thintit Germany should live entirely autocratically, but the German national policy demanded a united agricultural organisation for the coming of danger. "We are only playing an overture Tike one of Wagner's with many leadihig motives." declared Dr. Goebbels in the presence of 10.000 people at Halle, in the Rhineland. "We could have told our story of our army in 1933. but had we • done so other armies would probably i have marched in. One informs the i world only when there is an accomplished fact and when the cannon are behind it.

"In company with certain neighbours we think the proverb 'double sewn is stronger.' We do not want to be a second Abyssinia and have civilisation brought to us with aeroplanes and bombs. If we want an army by a certain date we need not think the people will shrink from a food shortage. The army is not for war but for peace, and to see that worker works for peace."