Evening star., 1937-09-10

0AChChOONO-
When the Nnsis issued Invitations
10 their party congress, Ambassador
William E. Dodd strongly urged 1t
b. rejected. The United States del
epdtion mould only 90 to NTn-
burg to be insulted by attacks on
its form of government, he told the
State Department. HoireUer, Charge
d'A1aires Prentiss Gilbert OF the
Berlin Embassy, pent to the con-
oress., as did representatives Of
othsr. .den,ocracies That had planned
to reject the bids after Britain did
some presuadinG.
NURNBERG, Germany, September
i0.-Nszi Congress orators shifted
their fire today from attacks on
democracy to accounts of progress
under the Swastiks-with diplomats
from democratic countries as guests.
Yesterday Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels assailed democracy in
fiery speech.
Today Max Amann, president of the
Reich press chamber. extolled "the
power of our National Socialist press,
and Richard Walther Darre, minister
of agriculture, recounted rising farm
production.
The foreign diplomats arrived this
morning as guests of Reichsfuehrer
Hitler for two days at the congress.
Among them WAS Prentiss B. Gilbert,
Charge d'Affaires at the United
States Embassy in Berlin. His brief
visit was sanctioned by the State De-
partment, although Ambassador Will
liam &. Dodd, now in America, OBJ
jected.
Hitler Asks More Children.
Bachelor Adolf Hitler commanded q
cheering throns Of Man women TO "be
yourselves and have more children"
The chancellor declared in his an
nual speech to the Nan womens or
ganiation that children are the high
est ambition of man and wife" The
object of the Nsd movement, he ex-
planned, is the future generation
Hitler spoke ironically of foreign
assertions that German women are
slaves"
His women hearers laughed when he
added 1t is impossible" for some for
eigners to understand why Nazis have
q womenis organization.
They say to me that German
women are trampled upon" he added,
The crowd laughed again.
Enthusiastic women stormed Luit-
pold Hall TO see Hitler The crowds of
women proved stronger than Hitlers
black-shirted IS. g." guards. Several
thousand cheering women outside
rushed double lines of the husky guards
to reach the halls wide entrances when
Der Fuehrer got there.
Growth Of Nazi Press.
Amann told the congress that plans
were Under way for building at Munich
the biggest publishing house in the
world" to house Hitler's voelkischer
BeobAchter.
Proudly. he reminded the congress
that the Nssi press had grown from
q few struggling newspapers in 1880
to 73l dailies and 378 subsidiary publi-
cations Issued by l22 firms. Their cir
culation, he said, had increased twen-
tyfold.
Dare declared that in other coun-
tries the price of bread had increased
stable. In the United States, he said,
bread prices had risen II per cent
since 1893.
The FIRST Official appearance of the
visiting diplomats was at . luncheon
adjacent to the torture chamber IN
the old castle overlooking Nurnberg.
Rudolf Hess, minister without port
folio, rendered the luncheon ~ the
first of1cial recognition of their pres
eDce.
Envcys Angered.
The diplomats were driven 10 the
ancient castle by black-shirted -. g."
guards. Accompanying them were uni
formed Nazi ofhcials
Earlier, when the diplomats arrived
and filed out of their Pullman TO go
to breakfast. II planes roared over
them. forming huge svastika in
the sky.
Besides Gilbert, those on the train
were the British and Chinese AM
bassadors and the Ministers from
Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Egypt,
Holland. Csechoslovakia and Belgium.
The French Ambassador, Andre
Francois Poncet and the Swiss envoy,
Paul Dinichert, from Berne.
The attacks on democracy during
the congress were the main subject
of the visitors conversation. One
Ambassador said he intended, when he
meets Propaganda Minister Paul
joseph Goebbes. to say:
"Guten tag, Herr Reichsministsr,
stupid democrscies."
Both Goebbes and Otto Dietrich,
chief OF the German press bureau,
berated democracies before the party
gathering yesterday.
While the other diplomats chatted
about the Nazi attacks on democracy,
the Chinese Ambassador was said TO
of friendship for Japan which Hitler
included in his proclamation opening
the congress two days ago.
Assertions that Germany was lead
ing the world in the hght against
Bolshevism also have not especially
pleased the Italians, according to
sources close to the Rome delegation.
The Fascist visitors asserted they
were leading the anti -Bolshevist cam
paign decade ago.
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