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Of Berne have been forbidden to enter
Germany for six months because. ac-
cording TO Dr.. GoebbeIs. Of the mon
strous falsehoods- they have pub
lished In retaliation the Swiss Fed
eral Council has banned the official
Nazi newspaper. voelkischer Beobach-
ter, the Berlin Angrif and the Ber-
liner Soersen Zeitung
English and French newspapers
still can enter Germany. probably
because only a small number Of Ger
mans can read them. Nevertheless
whether one is in a hotel lobby, a
restaurant. or on a street car COM
plete strangers cautiously inquire
about what is going on. Crossing a
street corner with q French news
paper. one tourist was stopped by
policeman who asked: What's the
latest news9"
In the Nazi press every effort Is
being made TO reaSsure the appre-
hensive Brown Shirts IS. A. that
everything will soon be all right.
Their vacation" of a month is to
be temporary. during which time the
new general staff will reorganize the
storm troop detschments and weed
out traitorous leaders But most OF
them know better They see ahead
a long hard Winter. with no Brown
Shirts to open the pocketbooks Of the
fearful housewives, from whom they
solicited funds, or warm barracks to
house them. The voluntary labor
camps" is the best that they can
envisage at the moment.
Try TO Rekindle Fires.
Almost daily DR.. Goebbels orders
the newspapers to print warm letters
OF felicitation, exchanged between
Hitler and Goering, Goering and Won
Hindenburg. Won Blomberg, Won
Fritsch and others. These mutual
alteration missives are a bit too OBJ
vious even for the credulous storm
troopers
Gen. Won Blomberg's most recent
order of the day" is typical II urges:
and the people the public must
be cemented with the regime
you are to encourage love Of the
Fatherland and nature revive
old customs and folklore or
ganize popular festivals promote
sports under the aegis Of the military
and national Socialism
But it seems like trying to relight
the burned-out stub of a half smoked
cigar.
"Schwindel, allies list schwindel,"
commented a middle-aged woman
who conducted a fruit stand near the
hotel, when asked what she thought
of recent happenings. For most of
the common people it is beginning
to take on the aspect of a huge
swindle.
Hitler, they say guardedly, has been
in office year and half He has
carried out none of his promises.
Things have been getting worse in
stead of better. They would not mind
that so much if he had attempted
to put his theories into practice. The
totalitarian state was scrapped; the
land reforms failed to materialize;
the persecution of Jews did not ap-
peal to the average German and the
treatment accorded the Catholic
Church and the quarrel with the
Protestant bishops made many enc
mics. Uniforms and Wotan- worship
appealed to the young, but even that
soured when parents heard small
children say: 1--WE don't love Jesus
any more. We love Wotan."
Then the greatest complaint against
the Fuhrer, who nevertheless still re-
mains much Of demi-god, is that he
sold out his closest comrades to the
capitalists.
Dates Back to 1888.
The genesis of the break between
Hitler and Gregor Strasser, for ex-
ample, came in January, 1888, when
Strasser's scheme of calling a gen.
eral strike throughout the Reich and
march on Berlin similar to Musso-
linis march on Rome. was turned
down by Hitler, who at the moment
was in negotiations with Herr Thys-
sen and other industrialists Had
Hitler followed the tactics of Strasser
and his group he would have taken
over the government without any OBJ
legations to big business and Won
Papen's clique
To get reliable picture of Ger
many economically is still difficult.
Ofncial figures are known to be de-
liberately falsif1ed or doctored and as
a rule they are misleading. For ex-
ample, the gold coverage of the
reichsmark has fallen to 2 per cent.
yet on the international exchange the
mark is quoted at 38 cents against
a pre-dollar devaluation par of 28