The Archive · 1935

GERMANY'S WILL TO PEACE

Rerlin, Jan. 2.

Germany's will to peace was the Keyncte of the speeches with which the leaders of the German nation heralded the year of 1935.

Hitler, dwelt on this theme in The ihrer. Herr Adolf speech during a reception to the Diplomatic Corps at President von Hindenburg's former palace in the Wilhelmstrasse.

"May the New Year," he said, "bring us nearer the sublime aim of securing relations among nations which will be based on recognition that equality and honest ce-operation should guarantee the welfare of mankind."

He added that Germany, which Jonged for peace and an opportunity of peaceful internal reconstruction, would always be a guarantor of peace. In the relations of the Reich among the peoples of the world, he saw no problem which could not be amicably solved if it were dealt with a friendly spirit. He could not believe that goodwill was lacking to-in responsible persons abroad.

"The New Year celebrations in Ber-were officially opened by a march through the streets of General Goering's police band, after which Herr Hitler received the supreme commanders of the Navy and the Army, as well as the Papal Nuncid AS Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps, the representative of the Vatican presented the Relchs{uehrer with the felicitations of himself and his colleagues, remarking that world peace took first rank among all the goods for which the world was longing.

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