FASCIST GAINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 7

FASCIST GAINS

ELECTIONS IN BELGIUM SOCIALISTS STILL IN’ MAJORITY [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received May 25, 10.50 p.m. BRUSSELS, May 24. The general election resulted in the Rexists, the new Fascist organisation aiming at the reform of political life, gaining 20 seats from the Catholics, formerly the biggest party in the Chamber, in which the Socialists are now' the most important despite their losing three seats to the Communists. Results are not yet complete. OFFENSIVE PLAY FRENCH BAN IMPOSED SEQUEL TO PROTESTS PARIS, May 2.4. As a sequel to protests from the German Embassy, the Minister of the Inferior has banned a play entitled ■‘Hitler,'’ in which the author, Paul Caillet, asserts that his intention was to show Herr Hitler that Frenchmen were not afraid of him. The play traces Herr Hitler's rise. The lor e interest is provided by Hitler’s reputed fiancee, who is represented as a non-Aryan and who deserts him after a scene in which Hitler shoots Roehm during a purge. Al. Caillet introduces his idealised Frenchman, who attempts to persuade Hitler to maintain peace, despite Goering urging that “he ought to have a nice little war with France.” The curtain falls when the Frenchman cries: “You want war and you are going to have it, but you’ll lose. Any Frenchman can fight" half a dozen Germans.” Whereupon Hitler angrily telephones ordering the re-occupation of the Rhineland. The German Embassy resented the Hitler-Hindenburg interview in the play, in which Hitler, in demanding the Chancellorship, says: “God has entrusted mo with the mission to restore Germany.” Hindenburg retorts: “You have excellent connections.”