DEMOCRACY HIT BY HITLER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 282, 2 December 1935, Page 10

DEMOCRACY HIT BY HITLER

Reichsfuhrer Adoli Hitler warned the world recently that Germany •*wiij not stand fur harm from any body, ’' and asserted that his country • , uuc.not want to be the last in the concert of nations, but among the very first. *’ Addressing S<),OVU youths gathered at the National Socialist Annual Convention, the Dictator said: “We won’t do anybody any barm, neither will we stand for harm from anybody. We will not cross anybody's path, but let others leave us alone.*’ Deafening cheers greeted this statement, as they did also his assertion: •‘Never forget—friendship will be accorded only to the strong, as the strong alone deserve friendship.” Der Fuhrer extolled discipline ana obedien'’? as the greatest German virtues. “We do not believe,** he said, “in ludicrous, talkative democracy. We are not a chicken farm, where everybody runs helter-skelter and everybody cackles. We learn to obey one will, and act in unison m accordance with that Wilt “Every German belongs not to himself, but to the nation. We do no*, evaluate a young man by the number of glasses of beer he can guzzle, but by the punishment he can take; not by the number of nights he can spend cavorting, but by the number of miles he can march.” The speaker asserted that a “disciplined nation” like Germany, “picks fewer fights than a nation with parliamentary pandemonium. ” Preceding Herr Hitler on the rostrum, Baldur von Scbirach, leader of the Hitler youth movement, observed that 21 Hitler youths had been killed during the fight to conquer Germany for National Socialism and cried: 44 We had faith in you. our Fuhrer Fidelity to you is our gate to immor tality,’*

Woman s Place in lhe Nation

Earlier the leader was cheered uj JU,UOU woiueu when he tuld them Nutiuu al buciaiisiu ucuies the ..uistluJew ish-Boishevi.-t theory or women equality,” because it dishonours them lhe women, gathered both inside and outside the hall al the convention, filled the air with their “heils” when he added: ••1 don’t think that the rotten institution known as Parliament becomes Letter by women being in it, but on the contrary, woman is dragged from her pedestal by it.” Herr Hitler was in his happiest oratorical mood since the convention be gan. Speaking extemporaneously ami often with biting sarcasm, he poohpoohed the Russian idea of women’s battalions. “That will never happen with us,” he said. “There are some things that only man can do. 1 would be ashamed it a single woman fought on our front in case of war. “A woman, if she understands her mission rightly, will say to a man, ‘You preserve our people from danger and we shall give you children*.” Der Fuhrer exalted women as the stablest element in the Nat’nmil Socialist regime because woman judges by the heart and not by the head. He pic tured to them a Germany of a grandeur in which it would again be a joy to live. His audience again broke into wild cheers when he closed his 45-minutc address by saying. “When my day comes. 1 will die happy that I can say my life has not been in vain. It was beautiful because it was based on struggle. * ’ Special trains brought 50,000 Hitler youths to a tent city for a bip rally. The National Socialist® declare that the hope for Germany lies in a youth that knows no other education and rearing than the Third Reich.