Evening star., 1933-09-03
MOWRER SCOUTS
BUGABOOS Of NAz|S
Claims Evils Hitler Boasts of
Defeating Are Dubious
Victories.
BY EDGAR ANsELL MOWRER.

Its founder and leader, told the Nazis
assembled in congress at Nuremberg
yesterday, has the mission of Saving
Germany"
, For this purpose. all its horrors. its
terror, its concentration camps, its tor
ture of political opponents its suppress
sion of all political parties and all po-
litical life but its own. its abolition OF
civic liberties and freedom of the press,
speech and assembly, its monstrouS
mechanism Of censorship and propa-
ganda and Misrepresentation whereby
| it endeavorS to keep most OF its real
conduct and its true aims from the
mass of the people, both within and
without the country-all the things that
have for the time being taken Germany
of the list Of liberal countries are
| justified.
Perhaps this estimate would be cor
| rect had Germany really ever been en-
dangered. It arises from the fact that
many of the dangers from which the
| Nazis claim to have saved their un-
| fortunate country are elsewhere priced
as the finest fruits Of civilization ana
| that other so-called dangers never ex-
/ listed and, finally, that concerning the
remaining things which Germany Is
| being saved from, the Nazis themselves
/
worth while examining these three sorts
/ of dangers in some detail.
Saved From Liberalism.
| 1t is unquestioned that the Nazis
saved their country from liberalism,
both personal and intellectual, and
perhaps, in the long run. economic.
| Persons elsewhere may differ as to
whether economic liberalism Is any
longer a blessing. The fact remains
that personal and intellectual liberalism
visible in civil rights and measures OF
tolerance have alone permitted sclen-
| tiflc progress on mooern Scale anu
what we call civilization.
Hitlerism has also unquestionabiy
saved Germany from democracy ana
virtually transformed German society
into one vast army or milltarlZed Or
panization, with Hitler as the supreme
despot.
The Nazis also have saved Germany
from the Jewish danger 1t Is almost
the unanimous opinion OF foreigners IN
Germany that the Jews. VINO lurnlsneu
that country with eight or nine OF us
thirty Nobel prize winners In scleiice
and an astonishingly large NUMBER OF
artistic and economic leaoels' "eie OH
asset. not a liability
which NaZidom claims to be saving
Germany already existed. They are. SO
to speak. legends invented Tor the pur,
pose of concealing the real aims ana
essence of Hitlerism.
Chief among them is communism.
Hitler Yesterday repeated the ancient
and venerable story about Communists
having been on the verge OF power
when he rushed in and saved civil
zation from them. This legend. Dor
rowed from Italian Premier Benlto
Mussolini is popular with the NaZls,
because it is supposed to carry weight
abroad One Nazi leader informed a
party of innocent Americans that there
were $4,000 600 Communists in Ger
many when the Nazis took power
In point of fact. the number of in
scribed Communists was not more than
$50 900 and the total number OF votes
ever achieved by Communists at an
election was about 100000. or about
l3 per cent OF the total number Of Ger
man voters.
Other Savior Deposed.
The man who preceded Hitler in the
party was not precisely Communist.
He vas Mai Gen. Kurt Won Schleicher,
genius of renascent German milltarlsm.
whose hold upon the country was so
great that if he had not been knitted
by President Paul Won Hindenburg and
the then Chancellor Lieut.. Col. Franz
Won Papen and the Junkers. he would
not only have saved Germany from any
labor disturbances, but from Hitlerism
as we'll
The men who really saved Germany
from communism back in l918-19l9.
| when it was a real danger. are now
mostly in concentration camps They
include such figures as Fritz Ebert son
of the first President of the German
Republic: Paul Loebe. former president
of the Reichstag. who NaI guards at
the Oranienburg concentration camp
recently Encouraged Communist pris-
oners to beat up. and DR. Karl Severing.
former Prussian minister Of the in
terror, who is not in a concentration
camp because of happy illness.
The second legend is that Hitler saved
Germany from foreign oppression. The
facts are that at the time the Nazis
took power. reparations were no more
and the only form of oppression left
was the restriction on German arma-
mentS. This restriction still stands to-
day and ainly for a long time to
ccme Hitler is not the man to defy
the foreign powers who are maintain
ing it.
Trick in Jobs Figures.
The same can be said of unemploy-
ment from which the Nazis claim to
be saving their country. 1t is true that
unemployment figures are about 000.
600 lower than they were a year ago
Even assuming them to be correct
ana high German oficial recently
called them masterpiece of the &C
countants' art'-it can be shown that
all but few hundred thousand were
eliminated by tricks which previous
governments would not have used.
There remains the final sort of buga-
boos, those about which the NaZis dis
agree among themselves. Foremost
among these is capitalism. AS has often
been stated in these dispatches. leaders
like Hitler and Gen. Hermann Wilhelm
Coering, Prussian premier. are hand
in glove with the most reactionary wing
OF big business.
The mass of Nazis. however. voted
for Hitler because he promised them
Socialism" a label under which they
understood nMarXian, but none the
less real form of common ownership
OF productive property with the elm
nation of rich. private owners.
Obviously, at least for the time being,
the masses have been sold. But with
winter coming. IL is nara 10 DelleVe
that even the effective propaganda bat
teries of DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels
propaganda minister. will manage to
keep the mass of the party quietly in
ignorance of the fact that they have
been duped
Shootings Predicted.
Therefore, it is commonly whispered
i'll business circles that about next
February. it will be necessary for Hit
ler to begin to shoot number of his
really Socialist followers"
Hitler also IS saving the country
from the so-called bondage of interest.
This is formula without literal mean
ing. But what the NaZs understand
by it is relief from doctors. and par
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