MILITANT NAZIS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1933, Page 7

MILITANT NAZIS

GERMANY DISAPPOINTING BRITISH OPINION SHOCKED SECURITY OF DISARMAMENT AID. MUST BE RECIPROCATED VISCOUNT GREY’S SPEECH By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. British Wireless. Rugby, April .28. Viscount Grey, who was Foreign Secretary in 1914, reviewed some of the current world problems when addressing delegates after his re-election as president of the Liberal Council. He expressed warm approval of the step taken by the Prime Minister in accepting President Roosevelt’s invitation. He was convinced that co-operation with the United States was one of the most important factors in “pulling the world round?’ The meeting of President Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald had been a meeting between two men of the utmost goodwill, who had a real desire to see the world relieved of the present difficulties.

Referring to Germany, he said that he could not help feeling very deeply at what had happened there lately. “What would anyone feel if at j this moment German were as powerfully armed as in 1914?” he asked. “The peace of Europe would be regarded as most insecure. The great security of peace now in a position to go to war. The whole trend of her policy and the trend of her mentality has been to shock British opinion, which after the war was undoubtedly in many ways sympathetic with Germany. “We felt that Germany, though defeated, was a great nation, great in science and music, and some great men we honoured were not only Germans but also Jews,” Viscount Grey continued, “Suddenly there comes this attack on the Jews, showing that. Germany is not prepared to give them even tolerance. Our efforts after the war tended to create a peaceful feeling, but to-day the situation has tremendously disappointed public feeling here. “A few months ago a speech such as that of Sir Austen Chamberlain made in the House of Commons recently would not have commanded the universal assent it did command. I associate myself with what he said and what the whole of the House of Commons endorsed. We cannot make concessions or hold out the hand of peace continually unless that gesture is to be reciprocated. The present moment is not one at. which we can go on with the same policy we would have pursued in the case of Dr. Stresemann and Dr. Bruening. “We want peace, but it seems to come to a point when the British Government must rely upon the League of Natiqxjs in standing by public covenants and treaties.” NATIONALISTS JOIN NAZIS ACCEPTANCE OF LEADERSHIP. THE PARTY’S GRIP COMPLETE. Berlin, April 28. Herr Seldte, the Nationalist leader, in announcing his decision to join the Nazis said he regarded Herr Hitler not only as the leader of the Nationalist revolution but also as leader of Germany’s future. The Stahlhelms must give him their hearts and confidence. There were no longer difficulties, there was only one great unity. Herr Hitler has appointed Herr Rudolf Hess, Nazi member of the Reichstag, his deputy in leadership of the party organisation. The possibility of an agreement between the Nazis and the Nationalists is indicated in an arrangement under which Herr Hugenberg will retain the position of Minister of Commerce in the Prussian Government, but will not be a member of the Cabinet. The fusion of the Nazis and the Stahlhelms virtually completes Hitler’s grip on Germany. Herr Jacobsen, a Jewish professor of Indo-Germanic languages at. Marburg University, committed suicide under a train following his compulsory retireA thousand police and “Brown Shirts raided a western Berlin area ana searched hundreds of houses and all pedestrians. It is reported that they discovered many weapons and compromising documents. ’