Berlin, Jan, 2.
ERR Adolf Hitler's. New Year was heralded by the customary firing at midnight in front of his home at Berchtesgaden of a miniature cannon, dragged up the mountain by villagers, dressed in Bavarian national costume.
The peasants sang national anthems, and Herr Hitler shook them by the hand and wished them a happy New Year.
The glorification of Herr Hitler as the Man of Destiny "whom Germany will follow most obediently, and a scathing criticism of "those Democratic care: who never tire of dragging National Socialist Germany before the bar of so-called world conscience" were the features of a New Year German stations by Dr. Joseph G proclamation broadcast over all goebbels, Minister of Propagand:
Referring in contemptuous terms, fo "the 0.8 per cent, minority of feeble-spirited intellectuals who al~ ways said 'No'" Dr. Goebbels as: serted that the great mass of the people did' not fail in the nation's Yense hours, believing that all_ was possible, A thousand-year-old dream Was fulailed when Greater Germany became a reality in 1938.
"May success and victory also be our Jot In the New Year," concluded the Propaganda Minister.
Field Marshal Hermann Goering Prussian Premier and Reich Minister of Aviation, also spoke over the radio. He asserted that 1930 would be: another year of hard labour. The third Year of the Four-Year Plan, he dec-jared, would demand the utilization of the entire strength of the people.
Nation's Pret wilhelm In-Chief of the Germa Army, and Admiral Ernst Roeder, head of the German Nay, in mesites to. their respective services, referred to the nation's unbending will to Increase preparedness on land find sea, Reviewing the outlook for the New Year, the "Lokal-Anzeiger" states:—swe don't know what will come this year, We still have demands to make, {for example that of colonies."
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeituns"* declares that:-—"Ameriea is guilty, not nly of An unfriendly oct against Germany, but also of an attack on Europe's national consciousness." The Journal adds that, "at efforts have pushed Soviet Russ! back to Moscow, other attempts to Influence Russia from outside will have to be dealt with similarly."
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