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campaign inspired great respect in the
Reichstag on February ~, which was
Immediately credited to the Com.
munists through every medium OF pub
Hcity convinced millions of simple folk
that the new regime had EFFICIENTLY
the National Socialists increased their
electoral following by nearly half, at
the expense of every other party, and
took enough votes from the Nationalist
colleagues to prove that the victory was
Hitler's and not Hugenberg's.
The outer world was startled, to put
1t mildly. and 1t began to appear less
certain that Adolf Hitler was nothing
but a ranting simpleton. Still there
was even then considerable confidence
expressed in and out of Germany that
President Won Hindenburg and the
Reichswehr we're still the masters Of the
situation and could throw the whole
hysterical Nazi procession into reverse
whenever they liked. During the last
eight months this confidence has gone
down to something below zero and has
given place to fears OF what Germany,
solidly and fanatically united under
the swatiska banner, is going to do to
the peace Of the world-fears which are
cut Of proportion to both Hitler's real
abilities and the present military re-
sources Of the Reich. These fears reached
their crescendo when Germany an
nounced her intention to withdraw from
the League of Nations at the earliest
possible date-and her immediate with
drawal from the World Disarmament
Conference. The NaZi regime conf
IDENTIFY expects ratification of these
drastic steps in the election on Novem-
Der IL, called for that express purpose.
Hugenberg Expelled.
During these last eight months Hitler
and company have virtually retired the
all-powerful Won Hindenburg to that
foggy apotheosis at Neudeck that BELTS
q politically defunct national hero.
They have expelled Hugenberg from the
cabinet, absorbed his Stalhelm organi-
1ation, taken over his press and cinema
chains and have swept the whole
monarchist cause into oblivion. They
have forced the great Catholic parties
to vote their own dissolution. they have
so thoroughly mopped up all Socialist
and Communist organizations, including
their great and vociferous press, that
apart from a little fly-by-night propa-
ganda that the Reds still circulate
among themselves, not a line Of news or
comment is available to the German
people that does not suit the purposes
of Nazi hierarchy.
The HitleriteS have suspended the
Weimar constitution, pending the prep
aration and publication Of their own;
they have outlawed the republican flag,
defied the strong provincial sentiment
Of the old German kingdoms and prin-
cipalities and substituted satraps for
their seni-autonomous state democra-
cies. They have disenfranchised the
100000 German Jews, excluded them
from the government services, the press
and the teaching profession, assigned
them the status of O. pariah caste. and
limited them to l per cent participa-
ton In the professions and arts and in
the nations educational privileges
They have converted the Protestant
churches into religious auxiliary to
Hitlerism and forced their acceptance Of
the Swastika, the sign. of Thor's ham,
mer which the Teuton heather made
over their ale and mead when taking
oaths, as a German Christian" symbol
Catholics Leave Political Arena.
BY conceding to the Vatican that
converted Jews should enjoy the stand
ing Of Germans, they have secured the
Catholic Churchs withdrawal from the
German political arena, the cancellation
of the Vatican's concordats with Ba-
varia, Prussia and Baden and the con-
clusion Of new treaty between the
church and the Nazl regime which has
been denounced by nearly every Cath
clic bishop in Germany and which the
Osservatore Romano had pronounced a
pagan cult. Finally. and perhaps mcst
important Of all, they have not only
revolutionized the German educational
system, making it as subservient to Nazi
theology as Russias system Is to Com
munism, but have actually converted an
overwhelming majority Of the profess
sional fraternity to an active and not
passive enthusiasm for German racial
solidarity and its perpetuation in q
racial state.
II any American doubts the genuine
ness OF these conversions OF the intel.
lectuals to national regimentation. he
munity in this country and discover
how many intelligent men who were
either aggressively hostile to Hitlerism
contemptuous of 1t a year ago will
now express the belief that the way to
Germany's moral and material regener-
alton is over Hitlers road.
1t Is little wonder that the spectacle
OF these astounding changes, which are
still going steadily on, Is now prompt
ing in this country-and presumably
recently was vastly underrated by the
correspondents and diplomatists in Ber-
lin and by the press throughout the
world. This is not strictly true. The
mistake that was made by every nom
German observer Of the NaZi movement
was that Of overrattng the devotion of
the German people to democratic in
stitutions. That which we all under
rated was the strength Of the congeni-
tai craving Of the German people for
relief from the responsibility Of working
out their own regeneration, their
craving for strong. Unf1inching leader
ship and for the organization of their
lives, movements and thoughts into
rhythmic accompaniment of the mill
tary band.
Really Talented Mob Orator.
No one who has followed Hitler's
career has ever doubted that he is not
only really talented mob orator but
that he has a shrewd knowledge Of the
technique Of crude emotional propa-
ganda, through which he can convert
the pretudices Of the right kind Of an
audience into q religious frenzy with
out the least concern for consistency,
the accuracy Of facts and figures, logic
or any other alleged basis for intelli-
gent public opinion. III his autobio-
graphical "Mein Kampf" Hitler several
times Celebrates upon his formulas for
emotional propaganda. His first as
sumption in approaching the German
people has always been that their
capacity for absorbing and digesting a
carefully reasoned argument is very
small indeed. His second assumption
has been that they have no memories
worth mentioning. And his third has
been that they hungered to be bossed
and bullied and that they would derive
great comfort from an assurance that
found bosses who would unremlttingly