The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-26
FATE OF ALL
EUROPE RESTS
ON HITLERIsM
Destiny of Continent May
Be Decided Within
Twelve Months.
1T IS TOUCH AND GO
ImperiaIiStiC Policy Has
France Keeping Wary
Eye on Germany.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
MUNICH, Aug. 26.-Here, in a
room the color of bright, warm
blood in a yellow building facing
Brienner Strasser at No. 40, the
destiny of Germany and of Europe
may be decided within the next
twelve months
Munich is the capital of the
Fascist chief, Adolpf Hitler, whom
Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son
Of the former kaiser, called Gods
gift to the fatherland."
The yellow building is the Gho
Of the national Socialist German
workers party, or Fascists, and the
bright red room is the chamber Of
the inner council where Hitler and
his chiefs of staff meet in times
of crises to plan their moves.
It's Touch and Go
Today it is touch and go with the
German republic. The crisis, it is
believed, will come this winter. And
it may well be that the stand of
the Hitlerites and the nationalist
that side with him may tip the
scales shaping European history for
decades to come.
I visited the red chamber, rarely
entered by outsiders. 1t is one Of
the most striking I ever saw.
1t is almost square, with a high
ceiling. 1t will seat about eighty
people. The walls are of red brier-
wood, beautifully paneled with in
lays of lighter and darker reds. The
floors are thickly carpeted in red
and the seats, arranged horseshoe
fashion about three sides of tia
room, three rows deep, rise in three
tiers. Each row, therefore, occupies
a tier to itself.
All Is in Red
The seat frames, like the room,
are square. They are done in lac
quer red and the upholstery is in
rich red morocco.
At the closed end Of the amphi-
theater stands a table made of a
wood similar to the wall paneling
and by it is a crimson chair. 1t is
the "chief'S"-for Hitler, like Be-
nito Mussolini, the Italian duce-iS
called chief by his followers.
Above the table and behind the
chair where Hitler sits, is a great
splash of black and gold-a strik-
ing mosaic, some six feet by ten,
set in the wall. The black is an
enormous Reich eagle fiercely claw
ing against a golden background.
Above the eagle are six historic
dates. They are: 1919 (party
founded; 1920 (chartere0; 1923
(the famous "beer hall putsch,"
which sent several FascistS to their
death, Hitler to prison and broke up
the party); 1925 (reorganization)
1929 (Nuremburg demonstration) 4,
and 1880, date of the elections
which gave the Fascists LOT seats in
the Reichstag.
He Is Not a German
Strangely enough, the occupant of
the red chair by the red table in the
red room of the yellow building in
Brienner Strasser, the man who
aspires to rule Germany, is not
German.
The son of a petty Austrian Gus
toms official, Hitler early came to
hate the dual monarchy of Austro-
Hungary because to him it repre-
sented not a nation but a number
of nationalities held together by
force. So, when the war came he
refused to serve with the Austrian
army. Instead he joined the Ba-
varianS across the border in Ger
many.
Automatically, therefore, he
ceased to be Austrian without be-
coming German and, after the
beer hall revolt, the German gov
eminent refused to grant him citi-
zenShip. Today he is literally a
man without country.
Practical and Impractical
The program of the Hitlerites
contains twenty-five points. A num-
Der of them have to do with scrap
ping reparaticns and the treaty of
Versailles. Others demand the ma
tionalization of key industries; bet
ter distribution of profits; better
care of the old, inf1rm and children;
confiscation of unearned income;
death to usurers and profiteerS and
the confscation of war profits;
educational reform, and more or less
control over the press.
1t is a composite of capitalism,
communism and socialism, of the
practical and the impractical, adj
mittedly designed to zoe greater
Deutschland than ever on top of the
European world-a program which
is causing France to keep an I'M
easy, but extremely vigilant watch
on the Rhine.