Evening star., 1934-07-15
NAZI REVOLT SEEN SIGN
OF NEW EUROPEAN WAR
Hopelessness of Domestic Situation
Will Ultimately Lead Germans Into In
ternational Conflict, Observer Says.

gamble But for business and finance
the Alternative return of the Left
to power--can hardly be appealing.
II the Left gets back now. after all
that has happened. with the prece-
dent Of pogroms and prescriptions we'll
established, 1t is easy TO see that more
heads will roll in the sand and II is
not difficult TO imagine what heads
these will be. To get rid OF Hitler
now. while evidently possible and by
no means improbable, will not help
the conservative elements For they
will only inherit his problem.
Poverty Causes Crisis.
Government has become impossible
in the Reich. so far as one can Judge.
because the economic problem is in
soluble. That was what broke the
back Of the republic. That was what
drove Hitler to his bloody repression
of a fortnight ago. He has crushed
the immediate revolt, but he has
gained no new resources TO deal with
its causes. On the contrary, he has
multiplied the number of his enemies
without increasing the list of his
friends He may have won a breath
ing spell, but in that breathing spell
there is nothing to suggest that he
will be able TO find new means to
deal with the old problem.
In fact, Germany has now become a
prison in which some 65 millions of
desperate people are confined. There
can be no such thing as feeding and
maintaining these people upon the
resources of the Reich itself. To a
certain extent the situation of the
war Is reproduced and world economic
nationalism is taking the place of the
British feet. In this situation the
government faces the fate of the pre-
ceding government II it cannot solve
the problem which its predecessors
failed to solve. And. so far as one
can see now, the problem is insoluble.
Moreover, no one is longer inter-
ested in saving any government in
Germany. The British and the Amer
leans after the Peace Conference
sought consistently to tighten German
burdens. We and the British poured
billions into the Reich and at the
same time effectively restrained French
policy on many occasions But TO save
Germany again it would be necessary
to pour in more billions and possibly
to restrain the French as well. No
one is going to do either. Instead the
violence of the present regime has dug
a gulf between the German people and
the rest of the world deeper and wider
than did the war itself.
Must Face War.
One day the rulers Of Germany-it
may be Hitler and his present hackers.
it may be military junta, 1t may be a
restored Hohenzollern-will have to
face the final choice between a foreign
war and domestic revolution which
will sweep them all out of power and
indubitably be accompanied by new
prescription. In the face OF such a
choice, decision in the past has In
evitably gone for war Again realiza-
ton of the lessons Of history will dc
tate that all the neighbors OF Germany
redouble their precautions and prep
arations
In Germany the question OF the
country itself can no longer dominate
the rulers. Their problem now must
be to survive. Something in the nature
Of a civil war has now begun. AS a
consequence the lives and political for
tunes OF all those who are in control
or who can come to control must be in
continuous jeopardy The first Hitler
revolution took its fury out upon the
Jews and those liberals and democrats
who had been discredited. While the
brutality was great. the bloodshad was
insignificant. Thus although the af-
fair shocked the world 1t did not pro-
foundly disturb a people already men,
tally unbalanced by its material cir
cumstances.
The events Of June 30, however, have
introduced a new note. Germans have
killed Germans for power. The strug-
gle in 1888 was a struggle TO save Ger
many alike from foreign and domestic
ruin-that is to say, it was SUCCESS
fully represented TO the German people
as such. The new affair, however, was
battle for the control of an eco-
nomically and financial PROSTATE
Reich without regard to the conse-
quences. Not patriotism, but naked
pursuit Of power was the explanation
of that episode. And, of course, from
now on violence must be the sole means
of preserving or replacing any regime.
Leaders Murdered
parliamentarism is gone and assas-
sinatlon has replaced election as the
means of government. The original
accession of the Nazis to power was
covered by the sanction of a popular
majority and sancttfied by invoking
the authority of the Reichstag. Hav-
ing come to power legally. the Nazis
disposed with the machinery by which
they had gained Office, but their man.
date in some degree survived. The new
gang have no such warrant. They
have murdered the leaders Of the
masses whose support insured their
earlier success and have substituted
the firing squad for every form Of or
derly expression Of popular will. And
they are all headed for the firing squad
themselves if their hold on ONCE
slackens
Their hold on Office must slaeken,
too, if their capacity to produce. not
prosperity. but a tolerable existence
for the masses, proves Inadequate And
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