UNREST IN GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 7

UNREST IN GERMANY

OPPOSITION TO NAZI REGIME COUNTRY ON VERGE OF UPHEAVAL TROUBLE PREVENTED BY OUTBREAK OF WAR (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 23, 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22 The New York Sun, one of the leading afternoon newspapers, prints an interesting despatch from its Paris correspondent that an American business-man who had been in Germany since the beginning of the war left with the feeling that a revolution would have broken out in Germany in the ensuing winter if Herr Hitler’s invasion of Poland had not kindled temporary enthusiasm. The business-man in the last week in August got an immediate impression that the country was on the verge of an upheaval. Criticism and dissatisfaction with the Hitler regime were widespread, and the people seemed to take it for granted that its collapse was imminent, but a clever propaganda campaign quickly persuaded everybody that it was England who began the war for imperialistic purposes, with the result that popular sympathy immediately rallied to Hitler, unifying the nation in the sincere belief that it was warring in self-defence. Thoughtful people, however, fear that Russia will employ the opportunity to spread Communism all over Europe when the combatants are exhausted.