The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-07
HITLER DEFENDS
ARMY MOVE IN
DEFIANT SPEECH
War Fears Grip Europe as
German Troops March
Into RhineIand.
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NOOntfuutu FROM rage One1
calling an emergency meeting OF
the League Council for Tuesday.
Then came news that Italy had
accepted in pr!nciple-even If bound
with reservations-A League offer to
negotiate a peaceful settlement of
its war on Ethiopia, and thus left
itself inside the diplomatic frame
work for delicate, anxious days to
come.
All over Europe statesmen met to
talk over the situation. Telephone
and telegraph wires and cables
flashed diplomatic dispatches. Dip
.lomatic couriers were started on a
race through Europe by train, motor
car and airplane.
Drives to Opera House
The diplomats had before them
the material for a war or for peace,
for new effort to end the jeal-
ousies, fears and hates that have
endured for more than II years
since the World War ended-or for
months or years more of pickering.
After he handed the diplomatists
OF the Locarno powers copies of
memoranda, and gave other ENJOYS
copies through the foreign office,
Hitler drove to the Reichstag meet
ing in the Knoll Opera House, used
in place OF the old Reichstag Build
ing whose burning-allegedly by
Communists-swept him from nor
NAL constitutional leadership to die
tatorship.
President Hermann Goering called
the Reichstag to order. Two depu-
ties who had died were commence
rated and Wilhelm Gustlof, Nazi
leader in Switzerland, was memoir
allied as having been killed by a
"cowardly assassin" He was shot
to death at Davos, Switzerland.
Reviews Days of War
Then Hitler rose. He started
quietly by saying that the Reichstag
had been convened to give deputies
an opportunity to hear a govern
ment declaration which I am sure
you and the whole nation will con-
slider important, and which may be
decisive"
He went back to the dark days of
1918 and said:
Germany more than other ma
lions felt the wisdom of Woodrow
Wilson'S policy. Germany had the
misfortune to be defeated. Wilson's
articles (the IA points for just
peace were Germany's last hope in
her despair"
Then the present:
To-day everywhere guns roar,
where peace bells should be ringing.
History will show that the earth
went through crisis after the war
such as has visited humankind only
once in a thousand years.
Bled White, He Cries
Germany, Hitler said, was bled
white by the huge postwar political
debts of Versailles.
THE present European crisis" he
said, sis due to the glaring I'M
reason with which the vital inter-
ests of peoples were ignored. would
like the German people to learn
from this unreason that it is in
supportable to allow discrepancy
between realities and the vital in
terests of people.
"All European nations are men,
bers of family, though they may
r. quarrel. Their fate is inseparably
united, culturally and economically.
Statesmen who are unaware of this
fact, who refuse to adjust differ
ences by compromise, will cause an
explosion.
1T is impossible in such small
territory as Europe to maintain a
system of unequal rights. This will
create bitterness on one hand and
psychosis of anxiety on the other.
Deputies Cheer Feuhrer
MANY people talk today of the
German question With that is
connected the German regime,
'rearmament,' the German ma
tons lust for war'-or 'Germany's
intention to attack
mo! Gentlemen! The German
question is different. We are
densely populated nation of 1856
persons per square kilometre. Chat
is, 524 persons per square mile. In
the United States there are 41)
I'VE are not less industrious, not
less intelligent, than other people.
We also are not less loving of our
homer"
Here the deputies cheered vigor-
ously.
Scores French Attitude
"Our campaign for equality has
not harmed the French nation"
continued Hitler when the cheers
had subsidized. "Bolshevist chaos in
Germany would have harmed it.
The German move to attain equality
does not mean raising European
controversy but settling it. History
will admit that in struggling for
Germany I never for moment for
got my responsibility toward COM
mon European civilization.
II have repeatedly attempted to
throw the bridge of friendship to
the French nation.
The bitterness of war memories
Is vanishing. Those whom l once
regarded as enemies now appear to
be honorable fighters
Germany has no interest in see
ing France suffer. France could
gain no advantage by Germany's
misfortune.
Blames French Soviet Pact
But ratification of the French
Russian military pact compels me
to consider the German situation
and draw the consequences of it, no
matter how severe they may be-"
The French Russian pact con-
tradicts Locerno.
las long as our sacrifices are I'M
derstood am ready to make sacri-
fees. But as soon as it is clear that
sacrifices are not appreciated, I
must proceed to end an intolerable