ON THE CONTINENT.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19066, 3 October 1933, Page 5

ON THE CONTINENT.

A TOURIST’S IMPRESSIONS. THE NAZIS IN GERMANY.* AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Mr D. B. Ferguson, managingdirector of the Sunshine Harvester Works, of Melbourne, is passing through Auckland by the Monowai on his return to Australia after a nine months’ tour abroad. "I spent about a week in Germany, ■ Mr Ferguson said, "and, although Hitler and the Nazis were in full power there were no disorders which could be noticed by the tourist. My Impression was that the average German lias an almost child-like passion for a uniform and some form of ceremonial. That has been largely responsible for Hitler’s rise, and he apparently has the weight of publio opinion behind him. I heard nothing while I was in Germany of any atrocities against the Jews, although this does not mean that such persecution lias not occurred."

Austria’s Plight. Austria was apparently in a serious plight, Mr Ferguson said. Vienna was still under the shadow of the last wai and was a city of empty palaces, with many people on the verge of starvation There was no doubting the popularity of Dr. Dolfuss, the Chancellor, with the Austrian people. "Relations between Germany and Austria were somewhat strained, Air Ferguson continued. "When wc weio passing through a small Austrian town, about 100 miles from Vienna, a German aeroplane ilew over and dropped hundreds of pamphlets containing Nazi propaganda.” Mr Ferguson was also highly interested in agricultural developments in Morocco under French rule. The French had developed Algeria as a great wheat-growing Country, and since the granting to them by the League of Nations of a mandate over Morocco they had repeated the experiment in that territory with conspicuous success, - , ’ .