Evening star., 1934-01-28
BY DIR. EMIL LENGYEL.

Will enter his SeCOnQ year III OIuCe. |
During his eventful IL months at
i the helm Of Germany he has car
ried through what the National So |
cialists like to call successful revolu-
ton Hitler is more idolized in the
Reich than any German has been since |
Frederick the Great-the devotion given |
him is deeper than the reverence Prince |
Bismarck commanded at the height Of
his career
How are the powers aligned in Ger |
many on the first anniversary of the |
third Reich? Is the country facing
new war? What have the Nazis accom- |
plished-and where have they failed?
What will the future bring?
A series Of legends have sprung up
about the infallibility of Adolf Hitler. |
He can do no wrong because 1t is he
who sets the standards to which all
conform. While he harangued half a
million admirers on the zeppelienwiese
of Nuremberg at the party congress last
September a Nazi turned to me in a
moment Of ecstasy: He is mein
of the age. He is our Messiah"
While it seems as If Hitler's regime
were fully stabilized, firmly supported
by the enthusiasm of delirious ma
jority, in reality 1t has not yet passed
beyond the one-man stage where hero
is still essential to it's success. The third |
Reich is still in the formative period. |
Under the surface, one finds. the strug-
gle for supremacy is still going on
Struggle Between Nazis and Junker
Allies.
This struggle is not between the
Nazis and their much advertised foes. |
the Communists, Socialists, pacifists
and Jews. whose opposition-if it may
be called opposition-was put down
with thoroughness and dispatch.
The underground struggle of today is
being fought partly between the Nazis
themselves and partly between the Nazis
and their Junker allies. Although all
of Hitler. there is considerable di- !
vergence Of opinion about his future |
role. The group of Gen. Hermann !
Goering, prime minister of Prussia and |
minister Of the Reich, is said to favor !
the chancellor's taking over the presi-
dency after the death of Field Marshal |
Won Hindenburg This would mean
higher title and reduced power, and the |
process is known in the Reich as re
ducing Hitler to the exalted status of a |
god" Goerings ambition knows no .
limits and he is eager to become chan
cellor.
Another faction of the Nazis Is known
as that of the National Bolshevists. who
take Hitler's pre-third Reich promises
more seriously than they were meant to
be taken. 1t was this wing which started
that mysterious second revolution which
has produced an extremely large crop
Of rumors. Shortly after Hitler came
to power they began to occupy the in
dustrial plants of the Ruhr and of
Upper Silesia. ousting the directors in
some cases and taking over the man
arement Many of the National Boil
shevists today are behind the barbed
wires of concentration camps and the
second revolution is scarcely more than
a memory.
Junkers Occupy Key Posts.
More serious is the underground
struggle between the Nazis and their
nominal allies the Junkers. When
Hitler was given the chancellorship a
year ago it seemed to all the world as
if he had been appointed to the position
of sumptuous dummy. The important
cabinet positions were given to the
Junkers. for years the real rulers.
Today the Junkers and their repre-
sentatives still occupy the key positions
of the Hitler government-the vice
chancellery the ministry of foreign af-
fairs. the ministry of the ReichSwehr
anu lilc HlIllStIN VI hlIllOusI
the Nazis monopoliZe the spotlight. the
Junker clique has not yet given up the
struggle. Its rallying point is Won Hin
denburg. an East Prussian and friend
of the eastern land barons.
The real NaZi revolution has been
carried on against the Junker strong
holds. Stealing march on their allies
the National Socialists have taken
physical possession of the Reich with
their Brown army, and have captured
Germanys soul by setting up their own
heroes as the Reich's national idols and
making the swastika the symbol of
new Teutonic religion. The presence of
the Junkers in the key positions of the
cabinet may be sign of Nazi weak
ness-that the Hitlerites do not dare to
turn them out-or of NaZi strength
that they do not need to worry about
them.
Probably the Nazis feel they owe this
concession to Won Hindenburg, whom
they cannot afford to antagonize after
having exploited his mythical per-
sonality to give their movement that
touch Of legality which not even self
styled revolutionary party likes to lose.
The Junkers, on the other hand, still
believe that their cause is not lost as
long as they can moderate the REFORM
ing fury of the Nazis by giving them
the roles Of the tight-rope walkers while
retaining for themselves safer positions
on solid earth.
While the Hitlerites have scored an
enormous success in the domestic field,
their international position is far from
secure. At the end of Hitler's first year
in office there is more talk about an
impending war between Germany and
France than there was in 1914 Ger
many has bolted the League of Nations
and the Disarmament Conference The
European chancelleries burn midnight
oil and the ministers sit in solemn con-
claves.
France Strengthens Position.
France is strengthening her diplomatic
front all along the line. Traditional
enemies have been brought together be:
cause Of the Nazi danger. The Russians
and the Poles, along with several
smaller nations, have signed on-aggres-
sion treaties. The Rumanian foreign
minister paid mysterious visits some
time ago to the capitals of the Eastern
European countries in an effort, it was
said to create a sanitary Gordon"
around the Reich.
The three countries of the Little En-
tent have been drawn closer together
than they ever were before and, accord
ing to q popular view, are on the way
toward becoming super-State. Even
Fascist Italy, which fondly asserts its
paternity rights over German Fascism,
has been forced to part company with
the Reich over the vital issues of Aus
tria. The frontier of Belgium Is being
strengthened, and even Switzerland is
reported to be taking strong military
measures to prevent possible invasion.
The general uneasinesS is further en-
hanced by the Reich's high pressure
armament moves. The French estimate
the irregular Hitlerite Brown army at
about 1000, 900 potential soldiers. The
whole third Reich is being put into uni