WOULD RATHER BE WORM

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 121, 4 May 1936, Page 5

WOULD RATHER BE WORM

Hitler Declares Great Love For Germany. NECESSITY FOR PEACE. Press Association —Copyright. Berlin, May 1. "Peace abroad is necessary to our plans," declared Herr Hitler m a speech at the May Day celebrations. Greeted by wild cheering, fanfares of trumpets and the beating of drums, Herr Hitler made a triumphal procession to the Opera House at Charlotteenberg, where he was ecstatistically welcomed. "You are the whole German people," declared Dr. Goebbels. "You have given us internal peace and now you prepare for world peace." Herr Hitler declared that formerly May Day was a source of strife and bloodshed, but the Nazis had changed that. It was now a day of national rejoicing in Germany, contrasting with troubled celebrations in other countries.

"Others conduct a campaign of lies, saying Germany threatens Austria and Czechoslovakia," said Herr Hitler, "but they are a small band of international war profiteers." "Rejoice in Life" was the slogan adopted for Germany's celebrations of May Day. Children began to assemble as early as 4 a.m. to hear Herr Hitler's and Dr. Goebbels' speeches. Herr Hitler told them Germany had no use for mother's darlings. Children, he said, must think only lor the nation, which must live united according to one will. All Berlin was closed to traffic from 8 a.m. All the streets were lmed with Storm Troopers and every town and village was ablaze with decorations. Brass bands paraded in the streets and held forth at almost every morncr. Herr Hitlers reaffirmation of his desire for peace is accompanied by a somewhat truculent warning against interference with Germany's internal affairs, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. "We wish to say tc other nations, 'Don't cross our path,'" lie said "We have overcome internal problems without involving others in our difficulties; be good enough to do the same and not draw others into your quarrols."

Enthusiasm was at lever heat when Herr Hitler concluded: "1 would rather be the smallest worm in Germany than a king elsewhere."