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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 13, No. 12. June 15, 1950

Parallel

Parallel

By an emergency decree of February 5, 1933, during the farcical Reichstag Fire Trial, all the printing establishments and buildings owned by the Communist Party throughout Germany were expropriated by the German Government under the new Chancellor Hitler. The same procedure was applied next day to the newspapers of the Social-Democratic Party. Then came the banning of the militant Miners' and Metalworkers' Unions, the Red Sports organisations, Left Writers and Artists' Leagues, International Workers' Relief. Then the League for the Protection of Motherhood, the Association of Social and Political Organisations, the League for Human Rights, and the German Peace Society were outlawed. On May 2 the remaining unions and the Social Democratic Party were dissolved. . . .

The story from there on is well-known. . . . Pogroms of Jews, Liberals, Christians, everyone with decent ideals. . . .—(See "The Hitler Terror," Gollancz, 1933.)

In view of this excursion into not very ancient history, the following quotations may be of interest:

"If you and I were Germans . . . we would not be critical of the leadership (Hitler's) that has produced such results."

R. G. Menzies, 19/9/1938.

"Democracies cannot maintain their place in the world unless they are provided with leadership as inspiring as that of the dictator countries."

—R G. Menzies, 24/10/1938.

Hitler . . . Belsen . . . Gestapo terror . . . Lidice . . . inspiring?? Menzies . . . ????

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