TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19607, 20 June 1935, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Nazi Vieivpoint —A Novelist’s Rendition. Miss Dorothy Cams, an English novelist, thus presents the case for the German Nazi, as pronounced by one of her characters in her novel “Silver Tares”:

“If the Hitler movement was only ‘ politics ’ it wouldn’t last any longer than the other political parties since the Avar. ,It is something much more than that'; it goes deeper—right doAvn to the depths of despair in which our country has been sunk by fools and enemies at home as Avell as abroad! We have been too weak, too hopeless, too humiliated to protest. Besides, avlio would have listened to us? No, my friend, protests arc only heard when they have power behind them in this so-culled Christian Europe of ours. “If our fathers Avere guilty, Avere there not others as guilty who soAved the seeds of mistrust and fear that forced us to arm? It Avas a red madness, that reached its climax at Versailles. And noAA r , avc, the BroAvn Army, stand between civilisation and a redder madness, and because tho nations who are sheltered by our oavii broad barrier see 'its strength more clearly than tho strength of the enemy beyond, they begin to fear us more than the real danger, and to find fault and pick holes in our defence, which is also theirs, if they had the sense to see it ! And because avc arc young and enthusiastic and fearless of criticism, avc do of' course make mistakes for them to seize on and exaggerate. One must remember*, too, that a dog that has been chained up, starved and kicked, develops the instinct to bite rather indiscriminately ! It is not the best Avny to treat either a dog or a nation, if one.Avants to get the best out of them.

“ It avhs not so long ago that Napoleon ravaged our country, but Avhen Ave and our Allies finally defeated his ambition to take forcible possession of Europe, the terms that avc dictated avci-c more generous than those that were accorded us in .1919. It gives one something to think about Avhen one compares the tAVo treaties. England Avas our ally in those days, England Avho likes ‘ fair play ’ and says, ‘Never kick a man when he is doAvn’; but England Avas more powerful then. In 1919 she hadn’t the strength or the will to live up to such sentiments, and she hasn't recovered much since, judging from Avhat one sees translated from the English neAvspapers! There would be some chance of peace in Europe if England and Germany were allies again. Meanwhile, ours is a struggle for the right to live as every nation deserved to live, Aid we shall win J”