"We want to share inthe world's raw material sources and shall get them," declared Gen, Hermann Goer= ing, director of Germany's Four-Year Plan, in a speech at the Sports Stadium to-day on the Four-Year Plan.
Gen. Goering referred scathingly to the suggestion that Germany should buy her raw materials. "We would do so", he declared, "it they had not stolen our gold by reparatons."
Germany's population, he asserted, wag as dense as Britain's but Britain had the whole world 9s her colony.
It Germahy hed a small portion of such colonies, there would' be no shortage of food and raw materials, the meantime, Gen,. Goering appealed to the Germans to tighten their belts and work bardel "The Fuhrer," he concluded, "does not want butter and meat and what hhe, ean do, so can you."
"it can no longer be tolerated," the spanker stressed, "that our throat should be menaced by foreign fisis. In the next four years, we shall loosen the fingers of this tst, riger for finger until the German throat 1s free. agai 'Germany possessed no colonies: they had been stolen from her after' the Great War.
"All*tho necessary food supplies could not be grown in Germany, Gen, (Goering continued, but they would do everything possible to extract the Inst ounce from German sell and one of the most Important tasks. of each year would be to ensure a larger and better crop. In times when meat was short, they. would see that there was enough fish, He had ordered the German fishing fleet to be increased and also a" number of whalers to be enlarged in order provide the German nation with sumclent quantities of fats, Fats wore fan Item, he stressed, most of Which had to be {mported. from Jabrond and, therefore, the greatest passible restriction was necessary in: their consumption, Scraps Must be Saved It everyone would realize that today nobody must waste left-overs, then soon there would be no more shortage. He would spread a net~ work of collectors over the entire country to ensure that last scraps were saved.
There wore times Gen. Goering continued, when hens Jald many exes fand other times when they Inid few. No government had ever succeeded in obtaining eggs from hens when they. aid not want to lay them, The. people, therefore, must not be uns Feasonable and demand just tha article of food which was short.
The same applied to raw materials and it was their task to see what raw materials could be produced within Germany, New factories would Be built where they would make their own rubber and their own cloth without colton, thus saving millions and millions of foreign Turning to the employment problem, the speaker declared that, while other nations were confronted with the problem of what to do with their unemployed, German industry Is Jook= ug for more workers, The workers, on their part, must understand: that production on big. scale can be Jachieved only when everyone works steadily and does his part to preserve harmony in his plant since there was no place in Germany for dissension and strikes. Explaining that wages could not be raised, Gen, Goering repeated Herr Hitler's statement that wage Increase without production increase was treason against the Prices, like wages, had to be fixed, hho stated, going onto utter a sharp warning against attempts at profiteer= Ing and declaring that no measures could be too harsh for anyone caught attempting to raise prices, Germany is at zero point, Gon, Goering stressed. The most important thing for the time being Is that all workers should keep quiet and oh halt a year, conditions [should be slightly improved and, in we years, outstanding accomplls ments could be reviewed from the advanced points gained, "Our goal is a positive one and if, in gaining {t, the nation must forego some meat and butter, ths sacrifice is of no significance in the end. Temporary Aiscomforis must be put up with since these are endured for the freedom of the people and the strength of. the nation."
"Above all," the speaker stated, "the armaments programme must be completed since security depends on strength."—Reuter and Trans-Ocean, tween it and the present leg! The dissolution of the present ber of Deputies and a general el The Legislative Body of Iraq con sists of a Senate of twenty nominated "elder statesmen" and a Chamber of 88 elected Deputies—Reuter.
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