Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
GERMAN AIMS FOCUSED
ON THREE RS PROGRAM
Revision of Treaties, Reputation Of
Debts and Removal of Army Curb
Called Peace Menace.

Corridor and the like. Even the Com
munist leaders joyfully embarked in
the competition with Nationalist, par
ticularly In the matter Of reparations
reputation.
Now what does this election result
mean practically. In all probability
not a little time will pass before de-
cision is made as to the character Of
the cabinet. The Bourgeois parties
may join hands with the Social Demo-
Gratis, making bloc Of roughly 800 Of
the SIS members Of the new Reich
stag, but defections, beginning with the
Middle Class Party and the old Strese-
mann PopulistS would seem inevitable
and eventually fatal. On the other
hand the effort to make O bloc between
Bourgeois, Fascist and Nationalist
would probably promote cleavage in the
Center Party and certainly ALLEVIATE the
States Party, successory Of the Demo-
cratic, although on paper 1t. too. would
provide something over 800 votes.
Outlook Is Confused.
In reality, then, despite all the ire
mendouS explosion, the fundamental
situation in Germany remains as in
coherent as ever. No Nationalist gov
eminent can now take power, or parti-
cipate in a government in which Fascist
and Nationalist would necessarily SUD-
port the major fraction Of votes, and
subscribe to further debt payments, re-
frain f.; pressing the issue Of revision
of the treaties or do nothing in the
things could mean war, and any at
tempt at territorial revision would
mean war.
BY contrast, the inevitable common
action of the Fascists and the Com
muniStS, reinforced by the Hugenberg
Nationalist, against any Social Demo-
crat-BouFgeois cabinet, would start with
more than 200 votes. AS far as one can
see, then, parliamentary government in
Germany Is doomed to further ineffec-
tiveness and failure at the precise time
when its past performances have con-
tributed much to swell Fascist election
totals.
But just as the revolution Of 1880 did
not result in the restoration of q Bona.
parte or republican regime, the Ger
man campaign gave no indication of O
project for a recall Of the Hohenzollerns.
Not the ancient monarchy, but the
Italian dictatorship, not william II, but
MuSsolini, found favor in the eyes and
wards of the amazing Hitler and his
hardly less astonishing following. And
right here might prove q point of de-
cisive difference between Fascist and
Nationalist.
Republic Held in Danger.
Yet henceforth the world is on notice
Of certain very disturbing facts. The
German Republic is In danger, it is in
danger OF Fascist putsch, directed by
the man who tried and failed at similar
try less than decade ago And the
men and the political parties equally
certain to be responsible for such q
venture have publicly and violently pro-
claimed purposes which carry with them
clear threat Of war and q certain up
set Of European tranquility.
After all, it was not the revolution of
1880. but the Napoleonic putsch more
than two decades later that launched
France and the rest of Europe on the
series OF wars which began at Sebasta-
pol and ended at Sedan. In 1880 the
memories of the retreat from Moscow
and the two invasions after Leipzig and
Waterloo were stu fresh. Probably for
q period OF years Germany VIII still be
disclosed under the empire of her far
greater suferings both OF the war and
postwar time 49, - S - -
Nevertheless no one can mistake the
TWO facts that for the past year. ever
since the Franco-Italian quarfeling at
the London Naval Conference, European,
skies have been steadily darkening and
that the German elections results are.
on the whole, the most disturbing Of all
the many storm signs. Barely II years
after the signing of the peace treaties
in 1920. the people OF one great power
unanimously and of another by q clear
majority have declared for policies
which can be fulfilled only by q new
conflict.
May Involve Austria.
Under existing circumstances, how
ever, 1t Is far from unlikely that the
first step in the campaign to break
down the peace treaties may take the
| form Of q renewal Of the project to In
clude Austria In the Reich, that is a
realization Of the Anschluss, to which
| the Social Democrats are even more
committed than the Fascists and Ma
tionaltsts. Such a step would presup-
pose an understanding with italy, but
this Is far from impossible, indeed has
| ned by the hint that italian hostility
to Anschluss was not immutable
Were italy complaisant. such . move,
begun in Austria, could be. carried to
completion quickly and without any
show of military force on the German
side. It would then leave France and
her Slav allies, Poland and Czecho-
Slovakia, TO choose between forcing q
war and submitting. But the addition
| OF 1,UOO,OUO Germans 10 the present
population would establish q Germany
both territoriAlly and numerically larger
than that of 1914.
| Such q reunion" would carry In
slant threat to the integrity of Czecho-
slovakia, with its minority Of $500, 00o
Austrian-G Germans in Bohemia, Mo-
ravia and Silesia. It would also OBJ
viouSly render still more precarious the
Polish hold upon the narrow outlet to
the sea, upon the suppression Of which
all Germans or all parties are agreed.