HOSTILITY TO NAZI REGIME

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20512, 2 September 1936, Page 7

HOSTILITY TO NAZI REGIME

SEQUEL TO TWO YEAR SERVICE GERMANS OPPOSED TO CHANGE RELAXATION OF TENSION SOUGHT United P’-ess Association—By trie Telegraph—Copyright (Received September 1, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 1. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says: Whereas a few days ago Germany was loudly blaming -*e “Bolshevik menace” as the sole reason for her own two-year military service decision, the blame is now being placed more on France’s link wicn Russia. The “Bolshevik menace,” adds the correspondent, does not seem to have been sufficiently convincing. There is a smell of war in the atmosphere, for which suspicion is dawning in Germany that her own policy can at least be blamed. Moreover Herr Hitler apparently has been convinced that the two year service and the following tax increases are producing a mood more hostile to the Nazi regime than the German people have hitherto displayed. German thoughts therefore have suddenly tunied to the possibility international discussions and armament limitation, as it is apparently felt that success in this and the general relaxation of the tension would help to restore the shattered confidence at home. It is now asserted that if France had not “fetched Soviet Russia into Europe,” armament limitation could have been obtained at a comparatively low level. As it was Germany was compelled to look to h n r own defence, and if she is now ready to talk limitation it is probably because she now feels she has reached a reasonably satisfactory level.