Evening star., 1933-03-05
BY EMIL LENGYEL,

HITLER'S CHIEF ADVISERS
BY EMIL LENGYEL,
Author OF Hitler" 'The Cauldron Boils,"
Cattle Car Express" Etc.
~ NCE more Germany is going
to the polls, but today's elec-
ton has a new significance as
~ compared to those of the past.
At last years elections the OBJ
ject was q working majority in the
Reichstag. Chancellor Adolf Hitler has
declared that the election today will be
the last for four years. This state
ment may express merely wish; nev-
ertheless, the chances are that an in
conclusive verdict of the electorate will
give Hitler an opportunity to dispense
with even the semblance of a parlia-
mentary regime After this election
Germany may openly become Fascist
state.
The stage has been set for a Hitler
ite super-show. The press and speak,
ers of the opposition have been muz-
zed. Public officials whose loyalty to
the Nationalist regime cannot be
doubted have replaced the Republican
oficeholders. If Germany does not take
the hint that the rulers of the hour
want a Hitlerite Parliament, SO much
the worse will it be for parliamentary
democracy.
Who are the men behind the effort
Of Hitlerism to capture the control Of
the state? Hitler is a spellbinder and
not even his intimateS believe that he
is constructive statesman. His elo-
quence catches the votes and fascinates
the imagination, but in the movement
which he heads there is an intelligence
higher than that expressed in his POM
pous phrases. One cannot understand
the Hitler movement without trying to
understand the other National Social
ist leaders who with less publicity, but
with more talent. have stamped their
characters upon it.
Has Staff Of Experts.
Hitler has a staff of experts, and two
of them occupy important positions in
his government, Hermann Goring and
Dr. Wilhelm Frick. A third of these
"a man of special interest for Amer
lea because of his descent and train
ing-is Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl partly
American, and wholly Americanized
publicity agent of Hitler. These three
men have been ghost writing history
for the Nazi chieftain, and they are
the authors of many ideas published
under his signature. The two minis
tiers, Goring and Frick, supplement each
other. the one has driving power and
the other has political cunning These
two possess the qualities that charac-
terize the NaN movement.
AS minister without portfolio in the
reichscabinet, federal commissioner for
aviation and Prussian minister of the
interior, Hermann Goring is Chancellor
Hitler'S strong-arm man and liaison
officer with the outside world. He is
called a man of Steel" powerfully
built, with a sarcastic smile playing
around his lips. his words come in
torrential military staccato. Twice he
has been so seriously wounded that to
him life must truly appear a gift of
the gods. Yet he challenges fate with
perilous climbs in the Alps and Is a
reckless leader of ski expeditions.
In liberal circles Goring is called ''the
terrorist" because it Is he who has
muzzled the opposition in Prussia. It
was his hand that cut off-fguratively
speaking-the republican heads which
Adolf Hitler once told the Supreme
Court of the Reich would be rolling in
the streets of Berlin when he came into
power. In Goring's eyes a liberal is q
traitor.
Ordered Use of Arms.
Less than a fortnight before the
election Goring gave his instructions to
Prussian police not to antagonize the
German Fascist Stormtroops but to use
their arms ruthlessly against the Com
munistS.
Il will protect every policeman, he
wrote, who makes use of firearms in
the exercise of his duty regardless of
results"
If Herr Goring had not already 81
lenced the liberal press of Prussia it
would no doubt have pointed out that
his order was an open invitation to
political massacre, the consequences Of
which cannot be foreseen.
Although Goring has a dictatorial
temper, he knows how to give unques-
tioning allegiance. He is a hero wor-
shipper, and since he sees himself in
heroic role, he worships himself. He
has no conception of danger, and he
also IS reputed to lack foresight. Dur
ing the war he won fame as an ace in
Freiherr Won Richthofen's redoubtable
flying squadron and as its commander
after R1chthofen was shot down. He
has compared to medieval Italian
condottiere, to tight-rope walker and
to gambler.
The paintings on the walls Of Cor
ing's living room tell of his day-dreams.
There Bismarck keeps company with
Napoleon, Mussolini is staring at Hitler,
the crown prince looks up to his i'm
perial father. Wilhelm II, and RIGHT
hofen salutes Frederick the Great. Be-
hind Goring's desk there Is headman's
sword, the symbol Of German fascism
as he is reported to see it; and on his
desk there stands a massive candelab-