HITLER CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 91, 21 April 1939, Page 3

HITLER CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY

BRITAIN AND FRANCE NOT REPRESENTED BRITAIN-AND FRANCE NOT REPRESENTED. BERLIN, April 19. Herr Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday by receiving the Nazi leaders, followed by the old warriors of the party who are the wearers of the coveted Blood Order. The Fuehrer later, sitting in the front seat of an open car, journeyed four miles from the Chancellery to the limit of the new axis motor road, where there was a brief .ceremony. Cheering crowds lined the route. Britain and France were not represented among the official delegations from the many countries, but Lord Brocket and Major-General Fuller were the private guests of the Fuehrer. Last night the streets of Berlin were blocked with sightseers viewing flic decorations put up for the occasion. The excitement is mounting,

especially among the poorer classes, to whom £1,000,000 was distributed from special grants. THE SUPERMAN OF HISTORY. In a broadcast speech last night, the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbles, described Herr Hitler as the superman of history, whose name was a legend all over the world, and as the preserver and protector of European peace. He had extinguished the centres of conflagration which the democracies had built/ round Germany, at which the democracies cried with rage and indignation. The highest point man could attain was to engrave his name on the roll of his era. It would he impossible to conceive of the world to-day as it was before the rise of Hen.' Hitler. Tie had given European and world history a new direction.