NAZI VIOLENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18928, 24 April 1933, Page 6

NAZI VIOLENCE.

Chancellor Hitler has addressed a public appeal to his Nazi followers, urging them to refrain from acts of individual terrorism. The further progress of the “ national uprising ” must be guided from above. He was obviously brought to that step by the protest of his own allies, the Hugenberg Nationalists. They remind him that the national revival can only be worked out within the limits of discipline and legality. It remains to see how soon the authority of Hitler will make itself felt against the ruffianly incitements of men like his own Minister of the Interior. If the new regime is to be conducted in the spirit of Captain Hermann Goering, a sad epoch will have opened for the German people and for European peace.

Foremost among the victorious Nazi and Nationalist slogans has been the call to repudiate the “ shame ” of the last fifteen years, to return to the Germany that was before 1918 (comments the New York Times). It is going back sheer to the Dark Ages and an ugly complex of ignorance, superstition, fear and hate. The present outbreak of evil passions among a large section of the German people cannot be expected to endure, but the memory of it will remain for a long time a blot on the record of a nation so proud ot its high culture.

Until that stain is removed Germans will be in no position to speak, as they are accustomed to do, of the “ backward peoples ” of Eastern Europe. Race hatred in Rumania and in Poland has been fomented by minorities and discouraged by fthe governments. For a parallel to the doctrine preached in high places in Germany since the Hitler victory one must turn to Czarist Russia.