NEWS OF THE WEEK
ALL Germany is awaiting the meeting of the Reichstag summoned for today (July 13th) for " the reception of a government declaration " which it is presumed will be made by Herr Hitler himself. But few have expectation of hearing much more than the little which has been divulged already. Herr Hess has spoken, and Dr. Goebbels, and Herr Hitler himself has given an interview to Professor Alfred Pearson, the gist of which was no more than that the killed leaders were traitors who had " conspired and plotted to overthrow the established government," and that he had to proceed against them to avert civil war. Herr Hess's speech, delivered on behalf of the Leader to a Nazi audience, seemed in part to be an attempt to divert popular attention from home affairs to the danger threatening from supposed foreign enemies; and Dr. Goebbels, knowing that the only free criti- cism accessible to the German public is that which they find in the foreign Press, attempted in his broadcast to diminish its influence by representing Germany as • surrounded by an outer world hostile and slanderous.
