Berlin, Jan. 5.
The National Socialists _were held up to ignominy and scorn the leader of the Clerical Centre Party and close friend of the! Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, Prelate Kaas in the course of a public party meeting at Hassel, where Prelate] Kaas, on being' interrupted by! National Sceialists, adviced them "to take a holiday from polities and if possible to book no return-ticket, which would be the only service you could do tke German!
He then denounced them as light-political ambition, well in trumpeting—through line they heap ignominy and opprobrim, while they themselves are merely revelling in heroic phrases. But we know from our experience during the war that the men behind the trenches always disported themselves. more heroically than the poor devils in the front Li After this excursion the speaker returned to his subject, the foreign political problems of the country! and a plea for reconciliation with Without mincing his words he declared that if Germany were to run head on against, the Versailles treaty, such a collision could only end in dicaster for the eoun-
"For us there is only one way] out of the present situation to seek connection with all reasonable er. cles abroad in order to. convince them that our catastrophe would also-be theirs and that our recovery would also mean their recovery. Matters have come to such a pass] that it is impossible to cope. with the world-depression without eli minating the present anarchy of worldwide protection by systematic international ce-operation in the spirit of goodwill and faith"
Continuing, he insisted that the unrest at present sweeping through) Germany was not artificially whipped up "but the inevitable automatic effect of.certain causes which must be removed unless one risks an explosion." Germany must. g2t Justice from the world, he went on to say, and declared that to obtain such Justice would remain the aim of the Reich's foreign policy, add-_
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