Evening star., 1933-03-16
HITLER IS BELIEVED
DUE FOR LONG RULE
Visiting German Professor at
Columbia U. Sees Regime
Firmly Established.
special DISPATCH to The Star.

NEW YORK, March 16 (NA.NA).-
Dr. Fritz Strich, visiting professor OF
German literature at Columbia Univer-
sity, believes that the Hitler influence
in Germany is now so firmly established
that the fiery leader of the National So
cialist party will remain in power for
long time.
Just as Won Hindenberg appeals to the
imagination Of the people, SO Hitler, an
tions, he says. Moreover, Won Hinden-
berg is growing so old that he Is with
drawing more and more from public
affairs and his influence is waning.
Where age passes to be seen no more,
youth advances in never-ending ranks,
and the youth movement belongs in Ger
many to the National Socialists accord
ing to DR.. Strich. The German student
and the average German professor sees
in that party the greatest promise OF
unity and rehabilitation.
No Thought Of Individual.
"The difference notice between this
country and Germany" says DR.. Strich,
lis that here there still is individualism
and thought and effort along individual
istic lines. But" continued the slender,
smooth-faced, earnest scholar, who came
here as professor from the University
Va oSill, Al ICAliioAly lAlClC ID 4lO
thought of the individual. All trend is
in the direction of the community, the
state, the nation.
In the old days of the so-called Ger
man culture explained DR.. Strich, the
idea was to study the arts and sciences
without any special objective, aside
from the general widening Of knowledge.
That idea no longer exists. Study is
specialized, with a very definite objec-
tive. Most Of the students Of today are
working to master such subjects as So
GEOLOGY and political economy, because
they intend to put what they learn to
immediate and practical use. Their
whole thought is political and national.
AND they therefore are thinking in COL
lectlVe rather than individual terms"
In this connection it is interesting to
remember that before he sailed for home
young Louis Ferdinand, son of the for.
mer Crown Prince, said:
Youth Is Over Aged.
Youth in Germany still shows the
effects OF undernourishment during the
last years Of the war. As a result. I
feel that it is a little over aged. II
has seen its institutions tumble and
has lived through a period Of insta-
bllty. 1t therefore is natural that it
should have grown somewhat meta
physical and skeptical, while Young
America, still confident, has an inward
faith in the permanency of its insti-
tuticnS.'
That Prince Louis was not far wrong
would appear to be indicated by the
comparative calmncss with which peo-
pie in general, young and old, met the
recent banking crisis.
Dr.. S3rich believes that all of Europe
Is leaning little toward the same line
of thought. He says that in Switzer-
land, which did not suffer from the
war, at the University of Bern, eight
professors were to give course Of pub
lie lectures. Despite the fact that each
OF them taugh. a different form of art
or science, each-the philosopher, econ
omist. historian. sociologist and all the
others-lectured rom his particular
angle on the relation of the individual
to the community.
Shun MARKHAM Socialism.
The great mass of the German people,
DR.. Strich thinks, see nothing ahead in
suited to them, and have grown away
from the old MARKHAM theory of social
ism. BY national socialism. he says,
they mean something which is alto
gether different. national movement
with social side. Even Hanover, ever
jealous of its private rights, is extremely
nationalistic. The Hitler movement
has swept along as it has because it
has drawn supporters from practically
all parties who have at least one great
ideal in common-to build Germany
again into great and united nation
Adolf Hitlcr,G asserts DR.. Strich. 'is
not and never has been monarchist."
He thinks the Nazi leader never will
be. Hitler would like to be a dictator,
DR.. Strich says, and is extremely likely
to solidify his present hold on the gov
ernment so that he will become die
tator in effect, 3but he has not been
obliged to seize the re;ns Of power
They have been placed in his hands by
mandate of the people. And. DR..
Strich says, Hitler is a man Of ex-
tremelv strong will, who is likely to
hold what he gets
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