MAY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20792, 1 May 1939, Page 7

MAY DAY

ADDRESSES BY HITLER FESTIVAL IN GERMANY BIG YOUTH DISPLAY {United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) 'Received May 1, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 30 Herr Hitler will address workers at the May Day Festival to-morrow, between noon and 1 p.m. lie is not expected to refer to foreign affairs. The Fuehrer will also speak early in the morning at the youth display. GERMAN ARROGANCE RIGHTS WILL SOON END MAY DAY IN BELGIUM (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received May l, 3 p.m.) LONDON, April 30 The Brussels correspondent of the British United Press says that when the commander of the local gendarmerie demanded the identity cards of 300 Germans holding a May Day meeting at Winters lag, in the Liege Province, a man retorted: “ I am the German Consul. You won’t have the right to demand identity cards much longer.” The commander reported the inci- ! dent to the authorities. The Belgians staged a hostile demonstration after the meeting. The man departed by a motor-car which bore the number of the German Embassy car at Brussels. “DOOR OPEN AN INCH” STATEMENT BY MR ROOSEVELT TALKS WITH PRINCESS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrights NEW Y’ORK, April 29 “Herr Hitler has left the door open about an inch so far as the peace of Europe is concerned,” President Roosevelt declared, in reply to a direct question by Princess Martha of Norway, according to the New York Times and New York Daily News reporters, but the United Press correspondent comments: “I was as near the President as anybody, but I could not place such an interpretation on the interchange.” Mr Roosevelt’s secretary refused to confirm or deny the report, asserting that the President's conversation with the Princess was purely personal. Otherwise, there is no hint of Mr Roosevelt’s reaction. The New York Times Washington correspondent reported that official circles regarded the speech as leaving the door slightly a.iar for the discussion of specific questions such as trade, and possibly armament limitation, if the opportunity offered, hut felt no doubt that Herr ITitler had closed the door to a general conference for the adjustment of Europe’s difficulties. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AMBITION OF HERR lIITLER (I’nited Press Assn.—nee. Tel. copyright) NEW YORK, April 29 A symposium of newspaper reaction to Herr Hitler’s speech shows almost as many different views as there are leader-writers, demonstrating graphically the unsettled state of the American mind regarding the European situation. Some leader-writers drew hope from Herr Hitler’s assertions that he abhorred bloodshed, but most took the pessimistic attitude that the speech has made it clear that Herr Hitler Is resolved to build an empire, which course they held would lead inevitably to general war. Some writers assert that Herr Hitler’s answer was inadequate and even ridiculous, while others said he had in effect slapped Mr Roosevelt’s face, and they blamed Mr Roosevelt for making possible such a rebuke. The New York Times says in a leader: “Herr Hitler's speech makes it clear that- however short or long the present breathing space may be, Germany, under National Socialism, is bent* upon creating a new Empire. It is not trade, but an empire, that is Herr Hitler's goal. llow far and howfast he will go toward acquiring it will depend solely upon how much opposition is offered him.” Hitler’s Plea of Guilty The New York Herald-Tribune says: “To wade through that turgid mass of bnd ’manners, bad history, bad argument. megalomaniac distortions, debater’s tricks and plain misuses of language, is to experience intense irritation. Herr Hitler might, without committing himself, have parried the indictment and perhaps even helped somewhat to clear the sulphurous air. Instead, he came near pleading guilty to if.” The New York Daily News says: “It was a debater’s field day, and Herr Hiller, for all jiis fantastic ideas, is a shrewd debater. \Yr think the German people are more unitedly behind Herr Hitler as the result of his speech, so wc move that this public debate nowtake an adjournment, ami a long one.”