| REICH NAZIS STAGE. GREATEST HOLIDAY Nation-Wide Rejoicing Over the Saar’s Returns Eclipses Previous Festivities. 500,000 AT BERLIN RALLY March to Hear Speeches From Saarbruecken — Hitler Is Acclaimed in Villages. Wireless to THE NEW YORE TIMES. BERLIN, March 11.—Speeches, blaring bands and yet more speeches roared out in a mighty “welcome home’ of the Saar throughout Germany today and nightfall saw the trail of festivities illumined by the flare of countless torchlight parades. The police lid was ordered off for all Germany for this night and Saar wines were designated as the official libation. As a day of national rejoicing the Saar’'s homecoming just about eclipsed any previous Nazi holiday and afforded the Nazi ingenuity for publicity and propaganda full scope for development. In Berlin the demonstration drew crowds esti- mated at 500,000 to the Lustgarten and to the scores of loud-speakers that had been rigged up in various parts of the city for the broadcast from Saarbruecken. Beriin sent up its flag at 10:25 this morning following a signal flashed from Saarbruecken. Before that the metropolis had paused for & moment of silence. Hears Speeches From Saar. Shortly after noon long lines of Nazi formations moved in from the city’s periphery to the Lustgarten, where they remained massed for several hours listening to the broad- cast from Saarbruecken. The latter inciuded lengthy speeches by Rudolf Hess, Chancellor Hitler's deputy as leader of the Nazi party; Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Pronaganda, and Joseph Buerckel, who will govern the Saar, and a friendly oentimental peroration by Herr Hitler. The Chancellor's decision to par- ticipate in the ceremonies in Saar- bruccken remained a secret until. he arrived at the former Saar fron- tier shortly before noon. Accom- panied by his personal staff and by Colonel Franz von Papen, the Ger- man Minister to Austria, who is a Saar resident, he hopped off in his big Junker plane shortly before 8 A. M. and arrived at Mannheim two hours later. From there the party motored through the Palatinate past gayly: festooned villages and hamlets, Herr Hitler acknowledging greet- ings standing at the wheel of his car. Berlin was within earshot of the Saarbruecken ceremony from the time Dr. Wilhelm Frick, the Minis- ter of the Interior, took over the Saar for the Reich at 10 A. M. un- til the conclusion of Chancellor Hit- ler’s speech. The New Hork Times Published: March 2, 1935 SAAR GIVES HITLER DELIRIOUS OVATION ASITREJOINS REICH Adoring Throngs Break Police Lines in Saarbruecken in His Greatest Triumph. HE URGES FRENCH AMITY Says Transfer of Territory May Have Ended the Crisis Between Two Nations. ALL GERMANY REJOICES 500,000 Attend Demonstration in Berlin as Nazis Stage Most Enthusiastic Fete. Special Cable to TEE NEW York TIMES. SAARBRUECKEN, Germany, March 1.—The Saar became Ger- man again today amid a frenzy of enthusiasm rarely seen even in the old Germany, amid a forest of flags and in streets decorated with green- ery, and to the accompaniment of day-long cheering such as one might expect would leave every Saar- lander voiceless for a week. It is gtill at white heat, this en- thusiasm, late tonight, with throngs jn the cafés and beer halls and the streets thick with parading crowds: that do not want to go to bed, but to stay up forever singing “Deutsch Ist die Saar—Immer Dar’ [‘“Ger- man Is the Saar—Forever”]. When it seemed that the excite- ment had reached its height at mid- day and enthusiasm could mount no higher, Chancellor Hitler ar- rived by motor car from Mannheim, having flown there unheralded! from Berlin. Then the enthusiasm] became a frenzy of excitement and positive nysteria. Lines Are Broken. The lines of black-uniformed spe- cial guards and Brown Shirts with arms interlocked brought to the number of several thousands from Germany to keep the streets open broke like ropes of straw under the pressure of the throngs of Saar- landers. Roys and girls thronged about the Leader to touch him or merely to see him at close range, women wept hysterically and men. cheered themselves hoarse. Never in all his exciting career has Herr Hitler experienced such a triumph. Before the Chancellor left his motor car at the Town Hall it was just the same and apparently the experience greatly moved him, used as he is to hysterical worship. As the car moved slowly through the crowds he stood in it bareheaded, hand at the salute, smiling from side to side. It was long before the car could reach its destination. ‘When Herr Hitler left it and stood in full view, the crowd became un-- controllable. This was the crowning moment in the day-long scenes of parades and ceremonial speeches inside and out- side official buildings, in which most of the high officials of Nazi Germany participated. In an address Herr Hitler de- clared that the return of the Saar paved the way for Franco-German reconciliation, and that it was quite possible it had ended the crisis from which the two nations had suffered. Thera was only one notable ab- sentee from the celebration—Gen- eral Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the Prussian Premier and Reich Air Minister. Why he was not present no one seemed able author- itatively to explain, The favorite theory advanced was that it was desirable for some Nazi official of the highest standing to remain on guard in Berlin, that nothing might be left to chance, and General Goer- ing had elected to see that the cele- bration in the ‘capital went off ac- cording to schedule. The Transfer Ceremony. The actual ceremony of handing over the Saar territory to the Ger- man representatives took place early this morning, At the former residence of Geoffrey G. Knox, president of the retiring Saar gov- erning commission, Baron Pompeo Aloisi and the two other members of his committee of three on behalf of the League of Nations government in the Saar, presented the official keys to the representatives of the: Reich, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, the Minister of the Interior, and Joseph Buerckel, Herr Hitler's plenipoten- tiary for the Saar. Short addresses exchanged be- tween the two parties in French and German expressed gratification that today’s historic event had re- moved the element of unrest from the territory and hope that it would contribute to the pacification of Europe. - An hour later the first official em- blems of the Third Reich in the Saar—the black-white-red and swas- tika flags—were hoisted outside the building hitherto occupied by the League's governing commission. The ceremony was repeated at the offices of the French directorate of the Saar coal mines. Dr. Frick declared that the cere- mony was a symbol of victory and liberty and of the hour of libera- tion of the Saar and that it was to be regarded as an%ath by Germans that they wished to be free iike their forefathers and would never suffer German territory to be taken from them again. Most of the Nazi ministers were then present or arrived a little later. The Town Hall then became the scene of Herr Buerckel’'s inaugu- ration as Reich commissioner for the new Saar province. Dr, Frick expressed the thanks of the Ger- man Government and nation to the Saarlanders, especially the Saar officials, for their unswerving loyalty to the Reich. Finally addressing Herr Buerckel personally, he pointed out that it was his highly responsible duty to put Chancellor Hitler's will and the National Socialist ideals into practice in the Third Reich’s new province, which itself was charged with becoming the mediator to establish good neighborly relations between Germany and France. It was then that the news of Herr Hitler’s coming began to spread through the city. The rumor passed like lightning through the dense masses lining the streets, and with his appearance the frenzy became beyond control. As soon as space could be cleared for him, the Fuehrer moved freely to and fro, exchanging greetings with the enthusiastic crowd. Im- mediately afterward the head of the columns of some 50,000 police and members of uniformed organ- izations from the Reich appeared. For almost an hour they marched past, sometimes almost unheeded, as the Saarlanders clamored for Herr Hitler. “We want to get nearer our Fuehrer!"”’ they shouted in chorus. Then the Chancellor spoke, not at great length, for it was impossible, and he spoke only of loyalty, coop- eration and peace. This evening another large dem- onstration was addressed by Herr Hitler, Rudolf Hess, his deputy as leader of the Nazi party; Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, and Herr Buerckel. The leader expressed his happi- ness at being among “my Saar- landers’ on the first day of their liberation. Today’s great historic event, he said, was not only a day of happiness for Germany but for the whole of Europe. He hoped it would lead to improvement of the relations between France and the Reich. This was only a beginning and much remained to be accomplished, “he declared, but let the Saar re- main loyal to the new Reich as Germany had been loyal to herself, despite all adversities, in the last fifteen years. Drunk with happiness is a good description of the Saar tonight. It may be hoped that there will be no after-effects. Certainly today all the speeches have invoked only loyalty, friendship, toleration and peace.  THE SWASTIKA BECOMES OFFICIAL IN THE SAAR. Times Wide World Photo. Workmen placing the insignia of the Nazi Reich on a custom house with the return of the territory to the Fatherland. |
1936
| HITLER VOICES PLEA FOR FRENCH AMITY Karlsruhe Speech, Opening the Campaign, Brands Fear and Hate as Senseless. STRESSES PEACEFUL AIMS Fuehrer Disavows Territorial Ambitions—Accuses Soviet of ‘Interference.’ The principal parts of Hitler's speech are printed on Page 14. WIRELESS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BERLIN, March 12.—Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in a speech at Karls- ruhe, tonight backed up his seven- point peace program and justified his denunciation of the Locarno pact and his troop invasion of the demilitarized Rhineland zone. “I can assure you,” he said, “that nothing, certainly nothing in’ the world, can move us to renounce’ thiS sovereignty.” | He made a challenging appeal to "the electorate of Baden for undiv- ided support of his procedure. The speech marked the Fuehrer’s en- try into the campaign for a plebis- cite on March 29, when the Ger- man people will be asked to pro- nounce judgment on National So- cialism’ s performance in office since it took over the government ‘three years ago. Hitler, it is reported, will not con- tent himself with an endorsing vote totaling less than 90 Per cent of that cast and better than that he has consistently rolled up in previ- ous referendums. The Nazi party, which is in charge of the election machine, has received a warning to that effect. 40,000 Hear His Speech The Fuehrer spoke under a huge tent to 40,000 persons in one of the leading urban centers of the re- militarized zone. Karlsruhe is one of the cities that the Germans claim are more immediately men- aced by France's ever-ready can- non beyond the Rhine than is Strasbourg by the German big guns which do not yet exist. The Fuehrer’'s speech reflected a pronouncedly conciliatory tone. It was obviously addressed to France. “Hands across the Rhine” was its recurring motif, The German peo- ple, he asserted, want to live in peace with the French people. “I know what Germany wants,” he said, ‘and I know also what bolshevism wants. What I earnest- ly desire to know is what France wants.” He wags even more vitriolic in assailing bolshevism than in his Reichstag speech last Saturday. His castigation of Russia won him thunders of applause. His speech was liberally inter- larded with peace sentiments. He much preferred, he said, to spend the cost of a giant shell on a work- ing man’s home, The New York Times Published: March 13, 1936 |
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