Evening star., 1933-05-08
NAz|S TAKE STEPS
TO END HOSTILITY
Agents of Hitler Concentrate
Attention on Anglo.
Saxon Countries.
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER.


BY Cable to The Star
BERLIN, Germany, May 8.-Alarmed
by the apparent hostility throughout
the world, leading Nazis, with Chancel-
lor Adolf Hitler at their head. are max
ing strenuous efforts to placate the in
dignant powers peoples. For the con-
tinued hostility of certain of these pow
ers peoples would be an insuperable
block to that recovery of "Germany'S
place in the sum-" which is the chief
reason for the being of the NaZi coun-
ter-revolution.
While Reichsbank President DR.. HAL
mar Schacht in the United States will
busy himself primarily with financial
matters, such as currency policy and
interest reduction, the visits of Prus-
sian Minister of Interior Capt. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, over Easter to Rome,
of Herr Boys to Denmark, and of Al
fred Rosenberg, editor of Hitler's organ.
Voelkischer Beobachter, to London to-
day, and the proposed trip of Propa-
ganda Minister DR.. Paul Joseph Goeb-
bels to the United States are political
attempts to pour oil on the troubled
feeling of those foreigners whose hos
tility has unquestionably taken the Ma
EiS by surprise.
Capt. Goering's visit to Rome was not
q real success. So far as can be ascer-
tanned. italian Premier Benito Musso-
1ini was not eager to merge his air fleet
with the Germans and absolutely op-
posed the Nazi plans for annexing Aus
tria within the near future, even Of in
stalling Nazi government there. Ap-
parently MuSsolini directed Capt. Goer-
tng'S attention to the British hostility
Hoped for U. S. Invitation.
Herr Bogs sought to placate the
ScandinavianS in Denmark, but he re-
ceived a distinct rebuff. The result Of
RoSenberg's Sojourn in London remains
to be seen.
DR.. Goebbels had hoped through Am
bassador DR.. Hans Luther in Washing
ton to receive an invitation from the
American Government to visit the
United States, and especially the Gen.
tury of Progress in Chicago. The news
leaked out and Dr. Goebbels issued a
denial of his intention.
Mussolini. alarmed by the possibility
of unified Germany and Austria, began
to lose enthusiasm for the new regime
here. Prominent Italians not only ad-
NIT that they will not tolerate the
Reichswehr on the Brenner Pass, but
they even speak disparingly of the Nazi
copy of Fascismo.
Great Britain, hitherto the chief
German ally in the campaign for reviS-
ing the treaties at the expense of the
other powers, is definitely alarmed by
the specter of a rearmed Germany.
Even in the United States leaders
seem to incline to the opinion that at
some future date the American people
may have to face the alternative OF re-
nouncing European trade altogether or
taking sides with or against the treaty
reylSerS.
Awaken To Danger.
The Nazis have suddenly awakened to
the danger of the situation and have
started to remedy it. Hitler loses no
opportunity now to tell the world how
lis country's first aim is peace. Un-
questionably Hitler is telling the truth.
He not only wants peace; he must nave
it, at least for a considerable time.
If. as this correspondent believes, the
chief aim of tse NaZi counter revolution
is a powerful Germany which is again
to regain most of what 1t lost in the
World War and further European ex-
pansion eastward and southeastward,
the first requisite is the vast expansion
Of the German military power. There
fore, the administration within must be
unified and the people persuaded into
militant unity-that community spirit
Of which the Nazis never cease talking.
Furthermore. military rehabilitation,
It is calculated, will take at least two
years for its realization, despite the
great strides made in organizing and
equipping big organizations like the
Steel Helmets and the Storm Battalion,
and the general militarizing OF the
popular spirit for defense SPORT and
similar games.
Therefore, until the people are united
and national defense plans can be COM
pleted, Germany needs peace more than
any other country in the world.
Meanwhile its aim will be to renew
its insistence for disarmament by other
countries, which, according to the Ger
man Interpretation of the treaty Of Ver-
sailles it has a legal right to demand,
and prepare that British Italian Ger
man constellation which the Nazis be-
lieve necessary to securing their aims.
French Interference Doubted.
So far as could be ascertained by
this correspondent in his Easter trip
through three countries, neither France
nor Poland will seriously interfere to
prevent German rearmament.
Meanwhile his agents will concen-
trate their attention on the Anglo