GERMAN CAULDRON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 9

GERMAN CAULDRON

PAPEN’S MARBURGH SPEECH. SECRET POLICE ACTIVE REPORTED DISSENSION DENIED. (By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright) Received June 29, 6.5 p.m. BERLIN, June 29. A series of arrests, tapped telephone calls, and secret nocturnal searches, including the rifling of his desk of private papers, is reported to have followed Herr von Papon’s Marburgh speech. The police searched the houses of Herren Edgar and Jung, who allegedly helped in the preparation of the speech, and Herr Walter Schoote, editor of a Berlin society newspaper. Herr Jung was arrested after managing secretly to scrawl on a bathroom wall, “Secret Police!” This was his family’s only clue to hia whereabouts. Herr von Papen, in a speech at the congress of the Chamber of Commerce, said that the conclusions drawn abroad regarding the developments in Germany were based partly on malice but mostly on a misunderstanding of t*»e facts. “I therefore wish to emphasise that there is no doubt whatever that our leader, Herr Hitler, is victoriously terminating his task of regenerating rhe nation, and any speculation abroad about internal dissensions will only lead to a false position and cripple the European recovery.” Herr von Papen, in a speech at Marburg University, declared that enthusiasm for the Nazi regime was declining. He also attacked the Government’s campaign against carpers and critics, declaring that the Government ought, to stand decent criticism. The speake/ added that patriots should not be branded as enemies of the State. Thj German people knew the situation was serious, knew of the existence of an economic crisis, had an acute sense of injustice and violence, and smiled over indiscreet attempts to deceive them by falsification. I He also Raia: ‘‘Great men are not made by propaganda, but grow through their deeds. The belief that a nation could be united by terror should be rejected. ” The speech was partially suppressed in the newspapers.