PLEA FOR NEW GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1933, Page 7

PLEA FOR NEW GERMANY

QUIET, PLAUSIBLE DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE DR. GOEBBELS AT GENEVA JEWS’ POSITION EXPLAINED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Geneva, Sept. 28. Fulfilling his job as Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, the German delegate held a “seance” in the afternoon which caused greater excitment than the proceedings of all the commisisons together, says the Australian Press Association. Fully 200 journalists, representing the Press of the world, accepted invitations to a distant hotel where the German delegates are staying. Cards of entry were closely scrutinised by a hefty bodyguard lining the hotel entrance. There was tense silence when Dr. Goebbels rose and read an address on National Socialist (Nazi) Germany and its contribution to world peace. He read the address quietly, but occasionally with the ringing tones and flashing eyes of a fanatic. He made such a quiet, moderate and plausible defence of the new Germany that one wondered whether all the stories of cruelties and ill-treatments were a dream. Dr. Goebbels said the concentration camps were used only to convert anti-social leaders- into useful citizens. The camps were open to foreigners’ inspections. It was unjust and short-sight-ed to infer that Germany desired war more than any other nation. Germany wanted peace for a solution of the economic crisis. Discussing the foreign anxiety regarding Jews, Dr. Goebbels said they had become absolute masters of the German Press, literature, theatre, cinema, medical and legal professions and stock exchange'and were rulers of the Parliament parties. This excess of Jewish influence had been dealt with by legal and humane methods. The Government had acted in Europe’s best interests in erecting a solid wall against anarchy, chaos and Bolshevism.