Evening star., 1936-03-07

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understanding among peoples of Eu-
rope, especially among our western
peoples and neighbors.
Thus, after three years, I believe
I can consider with today the fight
for German equality as concluded!"
Before that Hitler had told the for
eign ENJOYS that the Rhineland re-
occupation by several battalions of
the Reichswehr-regular army-would
be as unostentatious as possible, a
dramatic symbol that Germany at last
is free of her bonds of Humiliation. "
But, with brass band music and
anti-aircraft guns, the first detach-
ment marched into Cologne, through
narrow streets aflame with waving
sWastika flags, and before a wildly
cheering population.
The soldiers had waited for orders
at the border of the demilitarized
zone throughout the night. In the
early morning hours they moved
swiftly into the district.
Their first military parade began
at 3 pm. on the square adjacent to
the Cologne Cathedral.
Der Fuehrer packed into his two
hour Reichstag speech and diplomatic
declaration more action and more
proposals than Europe has heard on
one occasion for years.
He said:
l. Germany is freed from Locarno
because the Russian treaty vi
olated it.
2. German troops are moving into
the demilitarized zone created by the
seven-power mutual security pact.
3. Germany is ready to create a
new demilitarized zone, provided
France and Belgium create one in
their territories, too.
4. Germany will sign non-aggres-
sion pacts with France and Belgium
in the West and with Lithuania in
the East, providing Lithuania agrees
to respect the autonomy of Memel
territory.
5. Germany will sign an air pact
with her Western neighbors and Is
willing to have Italy and Great Brit
ain guarantee these pacts. Holland,
too, may join If it desires.
6. Germany would re-enter the
League Of Nations if that organiza-
tion Is disassociated with the treaty
of Versailles, for with re-entry Of
troops into the Rhineland and the
freeing of all German soil, the rea-
sons for the Reich's withdrawal from
Geneva no longer exist.
Tells of Overtures to French.
Leading up to his attack on the
F'ranco-Russian pact, Der Fuehrer
declared he had "again and again
overwhelmingly but too often in
vain-to build bridge of understand
ing reaching over to the French people" I"
He pleaded:
why shouldn't it be possible to
break off the purposeless quarrel of
centuries, that did not and could not
bring final decision to either of
these two peoples, and to substitute
for it considerations of higher com.
mon sense?
THE German people are not in
terested in having France suffer, nor
vice versa"
He did not, he said, decline CO.
operation with Russia, but with the
bolshevism that lays claim to ruling
the world"
II do not want" Hitler told his
Reichstag, "the horrors of commu-
nistic international. dictatorship and
hate to descend upon the German
people"
Again he warned the world of the
"inroads of this destructive revolu-
tionary Asiatic conception of life,"
and said he "trembled" for Europe,
should "the chaos of the BolShevik
revolution prove successful"
Hitler opened his Reichstag address
with historical retrospect on the
World War, paying tribute especially
to Woodrow Wilson, whose consep-
tions in which a new era and a bet
ter world were envisaged have reached
the ears of humanity"
Der Fuehrer acknowledged the Will
son thesis Of IAN endeavor to give
new laws governing the relations of
peoples toward each other and to fill
them with a new spirit from which
an institution might grow that, as .