Evening star., 1933-12-12
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER.

copyright, 1888. by the Associated Presso
BERLIN, December 12.-F'or obvious
reasons, Chancellor Adolf Hitler pre-
sumably will leave one important article
of GermanyS new constitution either
open or in terms capable Of wide in
:. depreciation. That is the article de-
flning the head of the government.
While the 86-year-old President Won
Hindenburg lives, and is willing to con-
tinue to function, he will continue to
head the nation with the title Reich's
President.
For while 1t seemed almost certain
that Germany's venerable field marshal
might retire after the plebiscite and
Reichstag election Of November IL.
No other than Hitler himself, how
ever, asked Won Hindeburg to continue
after November IL. Here's the way a
cabinet member explained this to the
Associated Press:
Hitler sees in Won Hindenburg the
one man who is the living connecting
bond between the empire Of Wilhelm
] and II, the November republic" of
1883 and the Third Reich of the
Nazis.
Now that Hindenburg has complete
1y allied himself with his youthful
chancellor. such a venerable symbol of
unity, such bridge between the past
end the present, is something that any
patton can be happy to have"
Clings to Hohenzollern.
There is another reason for insisting
bhat the President remain-Von Hind
enburg still clings with all the devotion
of a faithful imperial officer to the
House of Hohenzollern.
Obviously Won Hindenburg would see
es the crowning feature of the whole
work of uni1cation undertaken by Hit
Ter the establishment of the mon
erchy.
Hitlers mind, as far as can be
learned, is open on the question, but
pot so the mind of the three groups OF
followers who constitute the backbone
of his power-namely, the small farm
erS the workers and the Nazi storm
troopers.
The small farmers are against
crowned heads; the workers, while now
all organized in one vast NaZi labor
front, have nevertheless been thorough
ly schooled in MARKHAM philosophy, and
the storm troopers can conceive Of no
other person at the head Of Germany
than the leader.
venerable President Is no longer at the
head of the nation, the chief executive
will be called "Reich's leader"
Monarchy Possibility Slim.
The only chance now given the mon
nrchy by informed political observers
Is that of naziism failing to make good
economically, in which case Hitler
might conceivably take refuge in a
monarchy.
But the program of economic recon-
struction is not being allowed to lag.
IT is being pushed with all the vigor
characteristic of the aggressive Nazi
government.
The economic reconstruction pro-
gram, said Werner Daitz, chief of the
foreign trade section of the Nazi for
eign political division, writing in the
Diplomaten-Zeitung, will be governed
by five fundamental principals. He
wrote:
THE first principle is an an
cient farmers rule . q: Taxes must
not exceed tithe and interest half
q tithe, for otherwise they will become,
not conservators and augmenters of
the substance, but its consumers
In other words, he said, they will
strive to prevent the consumption Of
more liquid assets than are produced.
The second principle proclairns So
cial peace within the Nazi state instead
Of the class war of the democratic
state" There will be no strikes, Daitz
declared, and no lockouts. Thirteen
trustees of labor" will decide disputes
The third principle calls for
economic peace within the sphere Of
production and trade"
The other two principle, he said, are
safety first and "the reinstitution Of
fair play" among nations.