ITALY AND GERMANY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 September 1937, Page 7

ITALY AND GERMANY

“PEACE, NOT WAR” DICTATORS’ DECLARATION. Press Association Electrio Telegraph—Oopfrighl BERLIN, Monday. The May Day Field was packed with a million spectators to-night, when the two Dictators made declarations in the cause of peace. They strode to the front of the platform amid a tremendous demonstration. Rain fell during the speeches. Herr Hitler declared: “The deepest meaning of this demonstration of the nations was a sincere desire to guarantee them peace, which was not the reward of cowardice, but the result of securing, with a sense of responsibility, their racial, spiritual and cultural substance and value from the community. Signor Mussolini declared that behind the visit there were no secret intentions, no attempt to split further an already badly divided Europe. '“There is no dictatorship in Italy or Germany,” he said, “only organisation for service and the people’s welfare. No Governments have greater support from their peoples. The best democracies are Italy and Germany.

“The Berlin-Rome axis is not directed against a third Power. To the whole world, which is anxiously asking what ■will be the result of our meetings in Berlin—will it be war or peace?—we can both answer with a loud voice, ‘Peace.’ “Italy’s struggle is directed against Bolshevism. Fascism has fought it with world weapons. Italy did so in Spain where thousands of Italian volunteers fell in defence of European civilisation. ’ ’ MUSSOLINI’S RETURN HOME. (Received Thursday, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, Wednesday. Signor Mussolini left for Rome, after an hour’s talk with Herr Hitler, who accompanied the Duce to the railway station. ■ '