The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
HITLER? JUST
NOISE OR IS
He A PERIL?
Austrian House Painter Is
Storm Center in German
Economic UpheaVaI.
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Young MuSsolini became assistant
editor Of the "Avanti," the great
Milan Socialist paper. with a cir
culation of more than 100000 daily.
Only meagerly educated, with a
common school instruction, Hitler
made his daily bread as a house
painter. Mussolini was converted
into a man of action by the sad
condition of his country, torn By
political factions Italy was slipping
down hill He invented Fascism
and made his triumphaI march upon
Rome, won the throw of the dice.
and has been in power ever since.
No such home patriotism ami
mated Hitler. For reasons best
known to himself, he did not try
his political fortunes in his native
Austria, but in Germany, of which
he is not yet even citizen and,
therefore, not eligible as an office
holder.
ATOW whatever misfortunes may
~ hit Germany in a business way
latterly. the republican statesmen
who guided her destinies during the
last ten years did great things. They
wrote the republican constitution
of Weimar; they restored orderly
life out Of the revolutionary chaos
that followed the end of the war;
they stabilized the currency after it.
enormous and unprecedented de-
bacle; they got the French out OF
the Ruhr: they got them out Of the
Rhineland: they secured Germany
entry into the League of Nations as
a recognized great power.
When Hitler set to work on his
march TO power, he developed no
new ideas He took them ready
made. The Fascists of Italy wore
black Shirts so he clothed his men
with brown shirts. Mussolini chose
as the emblem of his party the old
Roman fasces, the bundle of rods
with the axe in the middle, carried
by the lictor before the magistrate.
Hitler chose the swastika cross,
the favorite insignia of the anti
Semitic youths of German uni
yersities. The Italian Fascists
originated the famous extended arm
salute. Hitler took it. The Italian
Fascists composed a rafting good
marching song. Hitler initiated
them.
After long and careful prepare
ton, Mussolini and his men Won in
their march on Rome. But after the
slightest of preparations Hitler and
General Ludendorff started a march
on Berlin which collapsed at the
first shots by the German Reichs-
wehr right in the streets of Munich,
their point of proposed departure.
Hitler is talker and latterly an
organizer OF political party, an
opportunist who took advantage of
the troubles of his adopted country.
He has in recent months never made
clear whether he favors a restora-
ton Of the monarchy or a form of
republic with himself and his friends
as dictators.
He has not told his panacea for
unemployment. He has not told his
remedy for business depression.
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IN exterior politics he has captured
the minds of the t-headed un-
thinking youths and of the old wom-
en- by loudly proclaiming that he
will free Germany from the "en-
slavement' Of the treaty of Viz
sailleS and the Young Reparation
plan. Just how he would meet a
French army if he tried to make
scraps of paper of these international
agreements, he has failed to make
clear.
AS to his interior politics it may
be summed up in three words:
Blame the Jews!"
Who influenced the governors of
Germany to sign the Versailles
treaty and the Young plan? Hitler
answers: The Jews.
Who is responsible for business de-
preston and unemployment? Hitler
makes the same answer. He is hazy
on many things but in this matter
he is clear: German Jews are to be
deprived of their rights of citizenship.
with no vote and no ability to hold
Office
Those who have come into the
country since 1914 are to be booted
out. They are not to own, edit or
write German newspapers. Jewish
finance, whatever that may mean, is
to be appropriated.
Theodore Wolff. famous editor of
the powerful Berliner Tageblatt. not
long ago had an interview with
MuSsolini in which. with a squint at
what was going on in Germany, he
dryly said:
"FaScism is an Italian thing" 1t
is not matter of export. And it
has nothing to do with anti-Semit-
ism"
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FINALLY. When Mussolini struck,
L he found the bulk of the ma
ton behind him. Even with his
astounding success in the Reichstag
elections of Sept. IA last. Hitler can
county only six and a half million