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BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS, K. B. E. By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, March 2.-For the world outside Germany there is one question of paramount importance: Does Nazi Germany mean peace or war? I have been trying to find an answer to that question. It is not easy. Adolf Hitler says he wants peace, and I believe him. He goes very far in denouncing the insanity of a new war for Germany, and I believe him. English journalists and others keep on quoting mad books of Prof. Banes, who glorifies war. But I have been reading the magazines and pamphlets published for the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youths), of whom there are 6,000,000 in Germany. They profess ideals of peace for Germany and for Europe. Leader of Youth. The leader of the Hitler Youths is a remarkable young man named Baldur von Schirach, who one day may be Hitler's successor. It is he who is forming the mind of young Germany, the pioneers of an unknown future. In his latest address to them he wrote as follows: "The outside world says we are all wearing uniforms and desire to conquer the world with our young forces and suppress other nations and not allow any other will in the world but our own. How ridiculous is all this! We look upon our uniforms as the garb of comradeship. We do not conquer the world but our German fatherland. We say peace and we mean peace, under one condition, of equal rights and security." But the fear that a Nazi Germany is a threat against peace is not contradicted by the fact, as I believe, that Hitler wants peace now. These Nazi leaders, men like Von Schirach and his ardent disciples, are raising up millions of young men whose faith is based upon racial pride, absolute obedience to leadership and utter self-sacrifice for their nation. They are intensively educated in ideas of self-sacrifice, courage, physical fitness DECISION IN BANK CONTROVERSY URGED O'Connor Appeals to Supreme Court in Dispute Over Pledging of Securities. By the Associated Press. The United States Supreme Court has been asked to settle another controversy over the authority of national banks to pledge assets to secure deposits of States and their political subdivisions. J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency, Thursday urged before the high tribunal the importance of granting a review asked by the receiver of the Hancock National Bank of Sparta, Ga., to set aside a decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals holding a pledge of assets made by that bank to secure deposits made by the State of Georgia. Pointing out there were 1.450 national banks in receivership, O'Connor emphasized it was of great importance to the Government to have a ruling
