Evening star., 1933-03-05

claiming from the platform and from
the minister's chair: "Fascists of all
countries, unite!" He Is popular in
the PalazZo Venezzia of Rome and In
the Var Of Budapest. He is in close
connection with the Austrian NaZis
and his finger is also in the Czacho-
slovak pie. His proselytizing zeal would
like to see the Teutonic nations, in
cluding Holland and the Scandinavian
countries, united in a Nationalist Con-
federation.
While Goring represents the nervous
impetuosity Of the younger war gen.
eration-he Is only 40-Dr. Wilhelm
Frick, minister of the interior of the
Reich-a man of SIS, stands for Nazi
craftsmanship. Gray-haired and astute
looking. he lacks Goring's athletic ap-
pearance and exuberant vitality. It is
one Of his greatest sorrows that on
account Of his physical condition he
could play no part in the World War.
He was a government official, cold and
ef1cient-"a German Scarpia," his
enemies call him.
When Hitler staged his ill-fated beer
hall revolution nearly 10 years ago,
Dr. Frick was a high police official In
Munich. It would have been his duty
to prosecute Hitler, but he followed the
inclination of his heart rather than the
call of duty-he joined the conspira-
tors. Prick was placed on trial and
sentenced to Is months in fortress,
but was released shortly after his con-
viction.
For years Frick has been Hitler's
parliamentary expert and leader OF the
National Socialists in the Reichstag.
Hitler thinks so much of his states
manship that he made Frick the first
Nazi minister when the political con-
stellation in the State of Thuringia made
1t possible for the National Socialists to
have a representative in the govern
ment. DR.. Frick became minister OF
Thuringia in 1880, and stayed in office
for IA months-a stormy petrol OF Ger
man politics in spite OF his dignlfled
appearance.
As Thuringia's Minister Of the 1nte-
rior, DR.. Frick made an attempt to show
be like If the Nazis came into power
with a free hand to establish the
Third Reich" their ultimate goal. He
issued a decree banning jazz music
from public places in an effort to purge
his state of "Verniggerung," or Negro
influence. He led a crusade against
what he called cultural Bolshevism, >
modernism in art. He had some valu-
able paintings removed from the Wei
mar Museum, which he called a
cultural torture chamber" because
they were made by moderns, Jews,
French and other spiritual untouch-
ables.
He created a chair Of social anthro-
pology at the University of Jena. where
a National Socialist professor made re-
searches into the qualities of the human
blood and declared that only the Teu-
tons were uncontsminated. He had a
conflict with the Reich when he began
to select his police officials from the
stalwarts of Hitler's Brown Army. and
was rebuked by the Supreme Court of
Germany when he made children in the
schools Of Thuringia say the treason
and shame prayer" in which they asked
heavens Furnishing hand on traitors
by whom the Nazis mean liberals and
republicans. At the end of his ad-
mnistration in Thuringia DR.. Frick had
to admit that it was a failure. But
Hitler has not lost faith in him, and
he now occupies an important ministerial
position in the cabinet of the Reich.
The third man, Ernst F. S. Hanfs-
taengl, is Hitler's ambassador to the
foreign press He Is 48, but looks
younger, a Teutonic god. very tall and
very blond Through his mother, an
American woman, he is great-nephew
of John Sedgwick, of Mexican and Civil
War fame.
Studied at Harvard.
At the age of 18 Hanfstaengl came to
the New York branch of his family's
well-known art gallery. He stayed four
years in this country on that occasion,
studying art. history, literature and
philosophy at Harvard Like Goethe's
Faust" he had set out in search Of the
elusive essence of knowledge. America
gave him also a consciousness of his
physical power, for which he found good
use in several sports. He was popular
in his classes and if it had not been for
his fathers illness, which proved to be