DRAMATIC EFFECT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 7

DRAMATIC EFFECT

HITLER FORESTALLED ROOSEVELT COMMENDED APPEAL TO COMMONSENSE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received May 17, 7.5 p.m. LONDON, May .17. Mr. Roosevelt’s message is the outstanding topic of every European capital. In fact, it was despatched to 50 nations throughout the world, and had had a highly-dramatic effect, especially in associavion with the intense anxiety caused by Herr Hitler’s impending Reichstag speech, which the message is manifeetly inte’ded to forestall. The Daily Herald says: “Mr. Roosevelt’s message is an appeal to the commonsense of the world. Nerves have been jangled by recent events, and suspicious fears have been aroused. In such moods statesmen may commit irreparable follies. Mr. Roosevelt’s suggestion for a new pledge of non-aggres-sion, may help to allay fears.’’ The Times, in a leader, characterises Mr. Roosevelt’s appeal as the most stirring which the nations of the world have yet heard for concerted political and economic action. “Mr. MacDonald has again clarified Britain’s position by his whole-hearted response to Mr. Roosevelt’s proposals,” adds the Times, “but a reply cannot be expected so quickly from the countries nearer the Continental political upheavals, which believe that armed force is the only prevention and cure for certain national frenzies. It is important that Mr. RooseveL should have restated America’s readiness to participate in a consultative pact. America, by abtaining from neutrality in an international conflict, would enormously facilitate the work of the countries ready to penalise illegal resort to force.’’ VON PAPEN’S SPEECH OVERSEAS REACTIONS. GERMANS PERTURBED. BERLIN, May 16. The overseas reactions to Herr von Papen’s speech, notably in Britain, where it is realised that there is a marked revulsion of feeling, are giving the Germans considerably perturbation. The man in the street is unmistakenly surprised and horrified at the talk of the danger of war and is puzzled why foreigners disbelieve Herr Hitler’s dictum that Germany needs peace. Nevertheless, there is skilful propaganda describing the adverse criticism as a smoke screen to cover the failure of the Disarmament Conference, for which France is blamed. It is expected that at the forthcoming meeting of Germany’s standstill creditors the Reichsbank will ask for a transfer moratorium. PERSECUTION OF JEWS GERMANY A DEATH TRAP NAZI REGIME ATTACKED. LONDON, May 16. Mr Malchett, in a fierce attack on the Nazi regime, speaking at the Queen’s Hall, described Germany as an absolute death-trap for the 600,C00 Jews there. In the Spanish Inquisition Jews could escape by being converted, he said, but there was no escape of that kind in Germany to-day, where the people were allowing themselves to be dominated by a small body of unbalanced savage individuals. He cited a vase in which he alleged that a German worker had been forcibly “persuaded” to resign office in a trade union after being taken to a dark cellar© full of tortured, scmi-conscious men, who were in various stages of being beaten up. The only permanent solution of the Jewish problem was the extension of the settlement in Palestine. EXTENSION TO CANADA. WINNIPEG, May 16. An investigation into the wrecking of the Jewish cemetery reveals the existence of a Nazi organisation, 600 members of which are pledged to exclude Jews from public positions. NAZI METHODS MODERN VERSION OF PILLORY. BERLIN, May 16. A modern version of the pillory was introduced during the conveyance of political prisoners to the concentration camp near Karlsruhe. Rr. Rammelo (ex-President of Baden), Herr Stenz (ex-Government official at Baden, and also a Socialist deputy in the Reichstag), a Socialist journalist, an ex-police chief and several leaders of the Reichsbanner at Baden, were placed bareheaded in an open police lorry, strongly guarded by ‘•Brown Shirts,” and driven slowly through the main street of Karlsruhe 1o enable the crowds to insult and jeer the captives.