GREAT AUDIENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 64, 16 March 1936, Page 7

GREAT AUDIENCE

HITLER DEFINES GERMAN ' ATTITUDE 300,000 HEAR FUHRER AT MUNICH NEW FOUNDATION WANTED [By Telegraph—Pre«» Association—CopyrifMi Received March 15, 7.45 p.m. MUNICH, March 14. All Germany flocked to Munich to hear Herr Hitler’s speech. The Fuhrer, in a brown uniform and brown leather overcoat, arrived at 4.30 p.m. accompanied by his personal adjutant, Herr Brueckner, and was welcomed by the Nazi leader, Her Wagner, head of the Black Guards, and Herr Himmler. There was a small crowd owing to the secrecy of his arrival. Herr Hitler drove to an hotel to complete the details of his speech. 3teanwhile the Propaganda Ministry had explained that the I.eague’s Council’s invitation had reached the Chancellery after Herr Hitler’s departure, precluding an immediate reply, which is now expected on March 15. Special trains brought 20,000 Storm Troopers, Black Guards and Labour Corps members, who were distributed about the city in readiness for the evening’s mammoth parade, a striking feature of which was the general repetition of the “holy oath never to waver from the Fuhrer’s side and accompany him in happiness, struggle, work and sacrifice, not for ourselves but for sacred Germany. Bands entertained the crowds with exclusively military music throughout the after' noon. The town was plastered with posters and banners urging demonstrations for peace with honour against jingoism and Bolshevism in loyalty to Herr Hitler. Hitler’s Arrival Delayed Two hundred loud speakers studded the mile-square meadow surrounding the exhibition hall accommodating 10,000 people, in which Herr Hitler's rostrum was erected. Hollywood could not have eclipsed the setting in which Herr Hitler opened the election' campaign, Bengal flares and artillery salutes marking his progress. Listeners outside shivered in the cold while Herr Wagner filled up the wait lor Herr Hitler, who was detained for an hour by conversations with Herr von Ribbentrop and Hi r Hess regarding the I.eague Council’s invitation. Herr’ Wagner paid a tribute to the gathering of 300,000 as the mightiest seen in Munich, and lauded Herr Hitler as Germany’s saviour. Herr Hitler was received with a roar of cheering when Herr Wagner presented him with a unanimous resolution conveying the sentiment embodied in his speech. Herr Hitler called on his hearers for the third time to declare their faith in the Third Reich and vote to show that he did not face the world alone. “J have the whole nation behind nic,” he said. “We have decided to hold the elections in this faith. 1 "ill be Ger- . many's courageous champion not afraid to assume responsibility. 1 wish I to regain for Germany respect in the I I world’s eyes. 1 did what 1 did not because I liked playing at soldiers but to restore the strength of the people. 'l'he most peaceful animals needs claws in order not to be ttaii-v<l. Ng flattery or threats will induce me to abandon my rights. The world must receive Germany as a partner not a slave. I go the way which fate has shown me with the certainty of a somnambulist. Germany dees not desire to wage | eternal war nor gain her ends bv bloodished. We have another way. Six hundred thousand births yearly mean the rejuvenation of the German people. e must leave the whole colonial question to common sense. We shall never agree to the -division of the nations by the Versailles Treaty into good or bad and ■ '' ■rik Med, Mstan nd Krill H'' ‘ " e *