The Washington times., 1933-08-26
By QUENTIN REYNOLDS
International News Service

international News Service
BERLIN, Aug. Is QN.S0
Germany today is outwardly as
peaceful and tranquil as an in
active volcano, but far under the
surface Smouldering fires are
burning, threatening to flare at
any time into major conflagra-
tionS.
There is in the national So
cialist party a group of radicals
far more radical than Hitler him.
self, and kept in hand only ny
the one bond common to all
Nazis-a blind, answering wor-
ship of the chancellor.
Showdown Looms
They do not believe the gov
ernment has gone far enough in
its fight against capital, and al
though they have as yet not been
able to influence the chancellor
to take drastic steps. recent
events indicate there will eventu-
ally be a showdown and that
capital is doomed.
At a mass meeting not long ago
Edmund Heines, political pres
ident of Breslau, Reichstag mem
ber, and one of Hitler's most
powerful lieutenants, declared:
"The revolution must be car
ried on until the capitalistic
system is wiped out and re-
placed by German economic
order. International capitalism
must be crushed"
It was DR.. Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda, who
said:
"In the course of the year we
will experience upheavaIs which
with what already has taken
place will make the latter ap-
pear as but an overture"
Recently the government let it
be known that no officer in any
concern which had been helped
by state funds should receive a
salary in excess of that paid to
a cabinet minister.
All over the country Nazi die
tatorships are springing up in
factories, business houses and in
dustrial organizations. National
ism in business is the rule, and it
has been carried out so thorough
ly that recently Minister of Eco
nomics Kurt Schmidt circular
lied the state governors, warning
them to put an end to rigid ma
tlonalism in the awarding of
state and municipal contracts. In
many cases the contracts had
gone to the most fervent Nazi
firms. with little regard to cost
or excellence of product.
The capltaEStic defense is led
oy two men, Vice Chancellor
Franz Won Papen and DR.. HAL
mar Schacht, president of the
Relchsbank. Both millionaires,
they have scant sympathy for
any attem2t to change the pres
ent economic system.
The bulWark of Nazi strength
is not in Hitler, Goering, or Goeb.
bels. In the long run it is that
army of 100000 storm troopers,
many of whom are, to the con-
Germ Of their leaders, beginning
to think for themselves.
Finar ces No Better
Thousands of them were con-
verted to the Nazi cause because
of promise that they would OBJ
tain employment. Many see a
division of wealth as the only
solution of their plight. They
and the members of the Reichs-
wehr (the standing army are
the sons of farmers or workers,
and after ven months of Hitler
they find the mortgages on their
farms are as heavy as ever.
These are all straws showing
a decided drift toward active pro-
test against capitalism. Only
one thing can stem the current
a return of prosperity. If that
long awaited turn" comes, Hitler
will, of course, receive full credit
for it. He will be hailed with
even more fervent worship than
hitherto and his present economic
policy of moderation and hands
off will be justified itself.
But if business does not i'm
prove-then the 100000 storm
troopers may demand action and
the second revolution may come
into being. It may not be as
h1ood1occ &C tho first