WANTS PEACE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 159, 17 June 1936, Page 5

WANTS PEACE

NAZI GERMANY.' \ MOTORING OFFENCES. NEW ZEALANDER'S VIEW. Frieidly Feeling Towards England. FRANCE HYSTERICAL. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, To-day. "Germany does not appear to me to want trouble," Mr L. H. Stoh 1 :*. Wellington, manager of Sncw Rainger, Ltd., who has just returned from a five-month* tour in which he visited England, Francs, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, said in an interview. j Mr Stohr said that lie found Germany busy', with considerable activity in the factories, and there seemed to be a general atmosphere conveying the impression that the population was more anxious to work than to fight. The largest silk mill in Europewas comparatively close to the French border, and a German had asked him if it would have been built there if the Germans wanted war or anticipated war. The French he found bitterly prejudiced against the Germans, even those who had lived for years in England, where it might have 'been expected that their antipathy would have been toned down as a result of the increasingly friendly feeling toward the Germans evident in Engr land. A vast proportion of the English feeling seemed now to be proGerman. The general impression seemed to be that Herr Adolf Hitler was' sincere in his regard for peace, and there was at least a readiness to give him a chance to prove his sincerity. The German feeling toward England was markedly friendly. Mr Stohr was in Germany at the time of the of the Rhineland, and went to a Gerr/an beer garden v/ith a German host, who let it be known that he was entertaining two Englishmen. The band Immediately played "God Save the King," and followed this with the only other Britis,"! tune the band leader knew, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." The Germans took the occupation of the Rhineland calmly, but the French were hysterical about it. All military leave was stopped, and it seemed to the casual observer that the French would have been quite ready to "have a go" at the Germans.