GERMANY’S VITAL INTERESTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20610, 26 December 1936, Page 11

GERMANY’S VITAL INTERESTS

THREE POWERS IN PARLEY ARMY VERSUS TRADE RIGHTS SHATTERING REPLIES BY NAZI LEADERS United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 25, 6.30 pm.) BERLIN, December 23. Discussions believed to be in progress between Berlin, Paris and London are of such importance that Herr Hitler is at present remaining in the capital. The discussions are understood to involve the relationship between the Franco-Soviet Pact and a new Locarno. ARMY v. BUSINESS BIG ISSUE CONFRONTS GERMANY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph - -Copyright (Received December 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 24. The Berlin correspondent of “The Daily Mail” suggests that Herr Hitler and General Goering discussed most important subjects with leading business men from throughout Germany on December 18 and told them that the army's interests must precede everything else, that Germany must produce essentials whatever the cost, and must dispense with non-essentials, and that Germany was almost in a state of war. It was made clear that the key to the riddle was Germany’s championship of the Spanish insurgents, thus supporting tire belief that there are serious German commitments in Spain. Bid for Spanish Trade. A special correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” says that the German efforts to capture Spanish trade perturb British importers, though the threat to the orange and oil businesses has been partly overcome by the suspension of the procedure for the clearing of trade debts. London importers handle one-third of the Spanish bitter orange crop, namely 300,000 cases used mainly for marmalade, employing thousands of Britons and entailing the making of 80,000,000 glass jars annually. Oranges will be double the usual Christmas price. OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE HERR HITLER GOES FOR HOLIDAY United Press Association—Bs Tel egraph Copvrlvh 1 (Received December 25, 6.30 pm.) BERLIN, December 24. Herr Hitler had long consultations yesterday with General Goering, General Blomberg and other Nazi chiefs, but the fact that he subsequently left for Berchtesgaden to spend Christmas, indicates that no crisis is imminent. Herr Hitler is not expected back in Berlin before January 11. APPEAL FOR BRITISH UNDERSRTANDING VALUE OF CO-OPERATION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 24. T e Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says: “The Nazi organ ‘Velklscher Becbachter’ supplies an important commentary on Anglo-German relations, in the form of a frank recognition of the differences between Britons and Germans. The paper thinks that Britons will have to be convinced that Anglo-German relations must be brought back to what they were before the great estrangement in 1903, but this can only be welcomed by those who believe that the length of close kinship and widespread similarity would be a false foundation for real friendship. Nobody suggests that Britons will ever deeply understand Russian or Japanese peoples, but they have had entente with Russia and an alliance with Japan. The realisation of the difference of outlook between England and Germany therefore, need not impede early negotiations. NAZI CHRISTMAS MUST BE FREED FROM JEWISH INFLUENCE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 23. The Berlin correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” says: “The stormtroops weekly organ demands that the German Christmas should be freed from Jewish influences. The paper denies any connection between Christianity and Christmas, which is regarded as older than Christianity.