Evening star., 1934-03-02
REICH REVOLUTION
ONLY NOW STARTS
Social Changes Are Not Yet
Apparent-HitIer Sees
Real Task Ahead.

This Is the fourth of a series OF
dispatches from the capitals OF
Continental Europe, Dhere Sir
Philip Gibbs, the distinguished
British author and Dar corre-
Spondent, is noU making surrey
OF the possibilities of another 1Ddr.
BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS, K.B.E.
BERLIN, March 2 (By Radio In
England, France and other countries,
the revolution which has happened in
Germany is bewildering and alarming.
Here in Berlin, where I have been
talking with well-informed people,
trying to see into the minds of men
and women who belong to the Nazi
faith or live under its rule, it Is even
more bewildering.
Germany is the greatest riddle in
Europe today.
There are few Germans outside the
Nazi organization, I believe, who are
without secret uneasineSS q secret
fear, as to the outcome of this
astounding adventure directed by
Adolf Hitler and his brown shirts. The
NaN leaders themselves know that
they are only at the beginning Of this
social revolution.
TASK Lies Ahead"
The spiritual battle in Germany has
only begun, says Rudolf Hess, who is
Hitler's chief deputy in the Nazi party.
Hitler himself, in a speech at Munich
on the fourteenth anniversary of his
campaign, said: Our task lies ahead.
It is the conquest of the German race
for the power of our state. We are
the pioneers of new age and new
type Of civilization"
mo one can assert that this social
evolution has already been fulfilled
Is even apparent in the ordinary
aspect of life. Berlin folk are carry
ling on very much as they always used
to do. There are the same inequalities
Of wealth. There is only the mental
tension of living under a new regime
and a new discipline which has the
right to interfere with private liberties,
even though it is not exercised as vet
In drastic way among the older folk.
The Nazis have obtained control and
are quietly taking possession of all
offices Of state, all public institutions
and all public activities, with moral
pressure upon private business and
private opinion.
Broken Sense of Caste.
But what part Of their program
have they accomplished in regard to
this new age and this new civiliza-
ton which they have promised? ]
cannot see any sign of it outwardly
One achievement they have done, and
1t Is amazing. They have established
German unity. We foreigners forget
that Germany was kind of heptarchy
until Hitler's triumph There were
many states, jealous Of their inde-
pendence and of each other. To the
German this unifcation under one
flag and one leader is something new
something wonderful.
The NaZis have also broken down
the sense Of caste among the younger
men. All classes drill, march and
work together with a comradeship
which, am told, Is rather splendid
But Hitler and his leutenants have
not begun the socializing part of the
National Socialist program. This is
greatly to the relief of the older
people Of the upper middle classes
who do not wish to be dragged into
a new era, and to big business, which
still carries on in the old way. But
it Is a disappointment, I am told, to
the rank and file Of the Nads, who
see no immediate approach to all
those ideals of corporate state under
supreme chief which they believed
was to build up new type Of civili-
zation"
Fear Revolution to Come.
The leader tarries. He has power,
but he does not use it. He keeps
friendly with the old Nationahsts. He
does not touch the great Industrial
lists or the big bankers. His lieuten-
ants, in fine new uniforms and fine
new caps, seem pleased with power
and forget their ideals Of simplicity,
austerity and spartan faith.
So much the better, in the opinion
Of millions of middle-class Germans
belonging spiritually to the old order.
Their terror, I am told, is lest the
real revolution has yet to come.
But the impatient ask, when do we
begin?"
There are several questions which
I have heard asked, not too loudly,
by people sympathetic toward the
Nazi regime. Is Hitler strong enough
to control the situation he has Gre
ated? Are the men surrounding him
Of quality equal to the stupendous
task ahead Of them? Are the bat
talon commanders of the storm
troops and the section leaders Of the
party men who can control and guide
the organization Of a great nation
still beset by many dangers and still
seethfng with passionate emotions,
fears and anxieties? These are un-
answerable questions.
Militarization Publicixed.
Against Hitler himself have heard
no III words. Every one, even those
most critical Of his purpose, seems
convinced of his honesty and SIM
plicity. His words have mesmeric
power over millions. There is no
doubt Of his passionate purpose to
raise the German working classes out
of their poverty and to give new hope
and confidence to the whole nation.
In England and France, and per-
haps also in the United States, one
reads most OF the miiltarization Of
Germany and of the strange myths
in sinister speeches delivered to the
German people. DR.. Alfred Rosen-
berg's fantastic rhapsodies about the
old German gods and the Aryan race
are published and commented upon as
though this were madness which has
possessed the mind of every Ger
man, as indeed they penetrate the
minds of Nazi youth. But most of
the Germans have met are bored
by all that and do not believe word
Of 1t.
Nor Is 1t right to think that the
attempt to establish national
church or pagan cult is backed by
majority of the German people. On
the contrary it is arousing great hos
tility and am told that the churches
both Protestant and Catholic, are
crowded as seldom before. Any
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