GERMANY’S DEFENCE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 99, 3 May 1935, Page 5

GERMANY’S DEFENCE

VIEWS OF GENERAL GOERING

ALSO OF HERR HITLER

BERLIN. May 2. At the winding up of the May Day celebrations before a torchlight procession. General Goering said: “Neveragain shall we leave Germany’s defence position to (politicians, other nations or cowardly compromises at Geneva. We may leave others in peace and demand others to leave us in peace. Germany can sleep in peace because there are not cowards hut men watching over her.” Shouting hoarsely owing to a sore throat, Herr Hitler forecast storms converging on Germany when he addressed 270,000 children assembled in front of the Imperial Palace, despite the slush and snow in which 'the May Day celebrations were olpened. Herr Hitler declared, “As the wind now tears our flqgs, so clouds and storms may surround Germany in the near future. Youth will not be afraid. Every German boy and girl must be convinced of the sacred duty to guarantee Germany’s security.” A million workers assembled at the Temiplehof aerodrome; only a doctor’s certificate would excuse non-attend-ance. Herr Hitler began his address in a snow storm. He surprisingly refrained from reference to foreign affairs. It is supposed that he is reserving this for the Reichstag on May 15. He merely said: “We do not want war, hut Germany is no longer a toy of foreign whims. You may offer me kingdoms; I would rather be a poor man among his people.”