POLICY OF NAZIS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 7

POLICY OF NAZIS

ASSISTING SMALL MAN FEW GREAT CORPORATIONS MANY GROUPS EMBRACED EXPORT TRADE SECONDARY HEAVY BUDGET DEFICITS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. London, Aug. 31. The British Embassy at Berlin, reporting on the trade year ended on June 30, emphasises that since the advent of Herr Hitler the standards of a democratic, inidividualistic and capitalistic state like the United Kingdom cannot be applied. The aim of the Nazis is to assist the small farmer rather than the great landowner, the small shopkeeper rather than the large store, the craftsman rather than the industrialist. The ultimate objective is a corporative state in which there will be only a few great corporations embracing all individuals in that occupation, whether employers or employed. International trade is thus relegated to a secondary place. Already Germany has suffered considerable loss in exports owing to retaliatory measures of foreign countries. It is useless to attempt to forecast Germany’s economic development in the coming year. Heavy deficits in the budget persist and the capital market is not in a fit state to finance a recovery. There is a bad foreign trade position and the currency can be kept stable only by severe foreign exchange control, while the departure of the United States from the gold standard has increased America’s competitive power with Germany in international markets.

All the bells in the city pealed as Herr Hitler arrived, in a motor-car from the Nazi congress. In a brief speech in response to the burgomaster’s welcome he said he had decided that all future party congresses would be held at Nuremburg as a symbpl that the movement was not only a continuation of German greatness but also of German art and civilisation. Two shots fired through a window by an unknown person killed Theodore Lessing, former professor of philosophy at Hanover University, at his home at Marienbad, where he has lived since April, says a . Prague message. Profesr sor Lessing was a strong opponent of the Nazis and was aged 61. As the result of a formal diplomatic protest, Weber, who was seized by Nazis, was returned to the Swiss authorities who may demand punishment and redress.

Weber, a Czecho-Slovakian allegedly smuggling sugar to Germany, was suddenly, seized pm August 27 by three Germans while walking in Swiss territory near Ramsen. He was treated with considerable brutality by his captors, who tied him with ropes and, though he was bleeding badly, dragged him across the frontier.