The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-08
But Groun Insists Germans
Takinr FOREIGN Citizen
ship Not Within Scope

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sclidatjon of nearly S0.0"0.000
continental Germans into one
"Greater Reich" by Adolf Hitler's
two thruSts of 1888 has lent now
Impetus to the pau-Gcrmanism of
the Nazi .party's Acknowledgements
cation, dedicated to binding last
to the homeland all its citizens
throughout the world.
AS German influence spreads
and consonaates itself through
the Danube basin behind the twin
spcaIheads of the Austrian and
Sudeten coups, aS the question of
Germany's pre-War colonies surgcs
into the foreground, the activity
of the organization takes on con-
stantly increasing Importance to
Nazi foreign and economic policy.
The size of the Auslandsorgan-
ization is a secret. Certainly it
runs into millions, here and
abroad. Probably it is second
only to the mammoth abor
Front, which includes virtually
every German worker.
BOHLE ON WAY UP
At its head is Wilhelm Gohle,
state secretary, who is generally
classed as one of the coming
younger men of the Nazi party.
Some of the best informed OBJ
servers of German politics believe
he is certain, at the moment, of
becoming German foreign minis
ter when a successor is needed
for Joachim Won Ribbentrop.
From Bohle, the organization
branches outward and downward
thrugh u large central office in
Berlin to subsidiary bureaus
throughout the Reich, to highly
organized offspring in every for
eign nation where Germans live,
and eventually down to district
and local groups throughout the
world, set up like the party's own
local units at home.
Its aims have been open to
more attack than those of any
other Nazi creation. Essentially,
however, they are pan-German
and limited only to Germans. Its
members, who not, only pay dues
but who also work under central
direction at specified jobs aimed
at strengthening politically, eco
nomically, and---perhaps most i'm
portant of all under Hitler the
ory-culturally, the threads bind
ing all Germans together. W.
GROUPS OPERATE ALIKE
In essentials, there is no diff
ference in operation between the
local group in the Yorkville dis
trict of New York City--which
is the worlds fifth largest Ger
man community after Berlin, Vi
emma, Hamburg and Munich -
and the local group in some
sweltcring harbor on the coast Of
the Camcroons, where some Ger
man banana planters live as rem
nants. of the Reich's empire.
Each group spreads to its mem
bers and to other Germans the
story of the new Nazi state and
| it's accomplishments, and Of Ger
man literature, music and cultur-
al achievements. Through pamph-
lets, lectures and other propa-
ganda means affection for the
| fatherland is encouraged. i.
!, One of the most effective prop
aganda means has been the an
nual congress at Stuttgart, which
is held just before the Nazi party
convention at Nuremberg and
which is attended by tens OF
thousands of Germans from the
Reich and foreign countries. The
keynote of this years congress
was the pledge that Adolf Hitler's
power would guarantee Germans
everywhere against oppression,
and that those mistreated abroad
could find homes and jobs in the
Reich.
ONLY FOR GERMANS
Nazi officials insist repeatedly
that the neutrality-suspicious.
concerns itself only with German
citizens. never with Germans who
have taken other nationality. Or
CARNATIONS like the German
American Bund, in the United
| States, are officially regarded as
an acute embarrassment about
which Germany can do NOTHING
because their members are for
eigners. 1t is specifically stated
. that members of the Auslandsor.
ganization have been instructed
newer to interfere with the inter
nal affairs of other nations.
1t is privately admitted, how
ever, by some people in Berlin
that there have been other actlvl-
ties of no small Importance. The
reports sent by foreign branches
to Berlin are considered Of equal
Importance with those Of the dip
lomatic service to the foreign
office. Their cooperation in slim
ulation of trade, and with it eco
nomic and political influence. has
been. constant. Their Importance
in the German language islands
Of the Balkans as German dom
nance spreads cannot be under
estimated.
There is evidence, but no Of
fetal confirmation. that the or.