Evening star., 1933-03-31
Hitler Treatment of Jews
Held One Phase in Despotisn

the better course" The San Jose Mer-
curry Herald advises that the public
must wait until the temporary wave of
feeling has subsidized"
Hitler is called by the Providence
Bulletin 'the desperate remedy Of q
desperate people," and the Lowell Eve
ming Leader finds that ''the Develop
ments at Berlin are not reassuring The
Morgantown Dominion-N charges
that ''the prospect of long continued
Hitler control is a dismal one" The
Europe headed straight for feudalism,"
and the Lexington Leader toward a
monarchy. The Dayton Daily News
concludes: "a people accustomed to ac-
cept the rule of a Kaiser could not all
at once summon the self-assertion to
retain the mastery Of a government Of
their own. Now they lose their chance
They are under the despot heel again."
Belief that ut Is France that de-
stroyed the German republic is voiced
by the Chicago Tribune with the con-
clusion that France broke the consti-
tuition of WeiInar down, and with it
the German republicans by exactions
and repressions which the spirit of the
people could not tolerate" On the point
OF the policy of discrimination against
oS"o, bAiC OAldlld dtLeSlS
that persecution is directed both at
racial and at political groups The
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin con-
oemns conformation of such crimes"
the Boise Idaho Statesman believes that
"H1tlers utterances are enough to con-
Wet him of the narrowest kind of big
gotry" and the st. Joseph Gazette con-
tends that reaction and anti-Semitism
alWays have been outstanding in Hitler's
program: These views are in agree
ment with the judgment of the Ro-
chester Times-Union and the LouisyiIIe
courier Journal. From the political
angle, the Roanoke World News points
out that "the nations of Continental
europe are giving up even the forms of
republican government"
Concedirg that "a coalescence of
Germany and Austria, soon or late. an
pears to be an economic necessity. as
Well as political probability" the At
lanta Journal suggests that "the Ger
many or Hitler is so different from the
repupncan regime that the idea of
well as without Austrian bounds" OF
the Jewish situation, the San Antonio
Express recalls that the race Contrib
uted at least as much to Germanv,s
progress as the element now politically
dominant" and the Springfield Mass
Republican views the Jewish function
as serving as 'the spearhead of the
counter offensive that must eventually
reclaim the lost provinces of emanci- :
pated humanity" That paper also
comments: While the Jews happen
to suffer the first shock of the Fascist
assault upon freedom in Germany, there
is much broader front upon which the
offensive of the Fascist movement is
hurting itself. All liberal and demo-
cratic aspirations are in the zone of
fire" THE dark hour before the dawn"
Is seen by the Schenectady Gazette,
While the Goshen News Times points
10 trouble for all minorities, and the
Meridian Star believes the world will
watch the newborn Teuton race and
keep its powder dry" The Newark
Evening News feels that ruthless in
yas1on of rights offers no progress for
Germany" and the Wall Street Journal
describes the new dominance as "a
strong. well-established government,
based on organization and enthusiasm,
conducted by able and popular leaders,
but disngu-ed by manifestations of an
ugly intolerance, which the leaders of
this resurgent nationalism are busily