Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Over 50 Years.] SATURDAY, 13th APRIL, 1935. PREPARING FOR WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 4

Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Over 50 Years.] SATURDAY, 13th APRIL, 1935. PREPARING FOR WAR.

Germany’s breach of the Versailles Treaty has shown that any undertaking imposed or maintained against her interest will be opposed by every possible means and denounced at the first opportunity. Germany is palpably and earnestly preparing for war. There is no doubt of it, and the old “Drang nach Osten” seems to be the favoured forward policy, as in the pre-war days. Soviet Russia blocks that path to-day, as Czarist Russia did formerly. To accept at face value all the current stories of German machinations in Austria, Hungary, RoUmania, and of her aims to acquire the Ukraine, is not necessary in order to stress the new German aggression. That stands out in the exhortations of the German leaders to their own people. General Goebbels has proclaimed the “German Revolution of 1933 the first stage of a European revolution, as the result of which Germany will consolidate for herself a predominant position throughout the world, just as after the great French revolution France took the dominant position in Europe.” But what was the final fate of that French ambition? Did it not raise a century later this spectre of German retaliatory aggression? It is impossible to conceal the general alarm or the Nazis’ satisfaction with the fear their threats have inspired. Herr Hitler promised restored respect for a Germany armed and insistent, and he is making his promises come true. He is establishing his regime. His chosen method of doing so demands this continued bombast.