Evening star., 1933-10-15
HITLER EXPLAINS
REICH ARMS VIEWS.
Chancellor, in Dram attic
Speech, Scouts Possibility
of Conflict With France.
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Fatherland," but he maintained that
"for us, as the representatives OF an
honest people it is impossible to
participate In the institutions under
conditions possible only for dishonest
men.
The German government is filled ID
the deepest with the conviction that It's
appeal to the whole nation will prove
that the governments love OF peace Is
precisely as its conception OF honor
and is also the whole nations yearnlng
for peace and the conception OF honor"
Much of Hitler's address was devoted
to circumstances attending the end OF
the war when the German people in
trustful faith and in the assurance
of President Wilson's IA points, low
cred their arms"
Then he declared ennphatically:
THE people should rightly have eX-
pected that from this greatest war
lesson would be drawn Of how small
were the chances of possible gain IN
proportion to the magnitude OF the
sacrifice.
Declares Obligations Fulfilled.
"When. therefore. Germany was
compelled to destroy her armaments to
enable world disarmament. uncounted
millions believed this to be an evidence
that a redeeming realization was max
ing headway.
weapons and fulfilled their obligations
in the treaties with really fanatical
fidelity
"The political leadership OF the ma
ton at that time, however, was in the
hands of men spiritually rooted in the
world of victor states.
"The purpose of the Versailles treaty
has not seemed to give humanity peace,
but rather to maintain fathomless
hatred
1.-THE German people are most deeply
convinced of their guiltlessness for the
war. Let the other nations see to IT
that by the unnatural eternallzatlon OF
the conceptions of the victor and the
vanquiShed that there does not result
an eternal inequality of rights"
After the Versailles treaty. he said,
there was an appalling collapse of the
economic life. followed by a no less
mcnacing general and political collapse.
On Brink of Catastrophe.
"One of the oldest cultural countries,
with 100000 Communists stood at the
brink of a catastrophe. The Nazi move
ment saved not only the German people,
-lbnnt rendered an historical service to the
rest of Europe"
The Nazi revolution, Hitler MAIN
tanned, had as its only aim the re-estab-
lishment of order for the creation of
work and bread and a proclamation of
the concepts of honor, fidelity and
decency.
That this was successful was indi-
Gated in a reduction of unemployment,
he asserted adding that the German
revolution was much less violent than
the French and Russian upheavals.
He complimented sarcastica1ly other
nations receiving German political
exiles ana attacked those who view Sus-
piciously the trial of five men for burn
ing the German Reichstag Building.
With hopeful emotion the German
nation takes "cognizance of his pre-
mier Daladiers) assurance that the
French government does not intend to
wound cur feelings or humiliate u.s."
he said.
The new elections Hitler described as
IAN opportunity for the German people
to pronounce an historic confession of
faith.
May the world, therefore, gain the
conviction that the German people in
this fight for equality and honor de-
clares itself unequivocally with its gov
ernment. but that both are animated
by no other wish than to help end the