WAR NOT WANTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21154, 29 September 1938, Page 7

WAR NOT WANTED

GERMAN VISITOR’S OPINION By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 28. Despite the gravity of international affairs it is the firm opinion of Dr O. Ziegler, a German visitor, who arrived by the Wanganella this morning, that war may yet be averted in Europe. Dr Ziegler, whose home is at Frankfurt, said he felt convinced that the German public opinion is so wholeheartedly against war that it would prevent ultimate recourse to armed force. “No man in Germany wants to go to war,” he said. “We have so much in common with you British that we cannot make a war against you. I have travelled through many countries during the past few months, and everywhere I have gone the feeling has been the same. "War is so terrible that everyone wants to avoid it,” he said. “It is unfair to represent Herr Hitler as being war-minded. The German leader is very anxious to find a peaceful way out of the present difficulties.” Dr Ziegler said it was five months since he left Germany, and while he was unable to say anything about the present conditions there, he could say very definitely that the German people as a nation were extremely anxious to preserve peace.