Gift to Germany Save for an announcement in the Angriff,
Berlin has been discreetly silent about Sir Henri Deterding's gener- ous gift to the Nazi Winterhilfe organisation. Indeed, it must be difficult for National Socialists to admit the necessity of such generosity from a foreigner. Sir Henri has drawn up a scheme for buying up all Holland's surplus agricultural products and transferring them to Germany : he himself has given £1,000,000 for the purpose, and he is appealing for more funds. Several million tons of bacon and 30,000 pigs have already been bought. Sir Henri, who is chairman of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, is a native of Amsterdam, has married a German wife and has large estates in Mecklen- burg. While Herr Hitler was still in opposition, Sir Henri was reported to have contributed largely to the National Socialist Party's funds ; it is only natural now that he should wish to help his countries of birth and of adoption. In a somewhat incoherent statement he says that his scheme is intended as a barrier to Bolshe- vism, which promotes misery and poverty and destroys international co-operation. If this is true of Bolshevism what is to be said of National Socialism ?
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