In spite of all that has been written and said to the contrary, the action of the Chancellor in unifying the Protestant sects of Germany has had no anti-Christian significance. The Chancellor sought by a Concordat with Rome to define the relationships and rights of the Catholic Church and the State respectively, so as to secure smooth working in both spheres. For the first time the Party Day had become a State function and had developed into an assembly of the nation. Hitler can never lay stress enough on the importance of the agricultural classes, of the plough-driving peasant. Upon them, and upon him, is built the superstructure of the State.
Agriculture is the source of the country's strength.
All the great cities would soon be nothing but arid deserts of brick and mortar were they not to receive, year after year, an influx of fresh healthy life from the country. On the other hand, this migration to the towns, if carried too far, is a curse in itself against which the National Socialist theory of the State sedulously sets its face. Hitler envisages for the future not a gathering of the population into endless great cities, but their re-establishment, right down to the roots, in their native soil. National Socialism has already achieved a great deal, and with much success, in this direction. The law touching hereditary farmlands seeks to relieve the small farmer of many of the uncertainties and troubles which have hitherto weighed him down.