Evening star., 1934-09-30
HITLER'S REGIME CALLED
A TEST DOOMED TO FAIL
Nazi Rule Is Declared UnecOnOmic and
Based on Linking of Progressives
With Conservatives.

complete disaster. Not, as Hitler de-
clares, because of treachery behind
the front, but because German states
men, by series Of obvious political
blunders, had succeeded in uniting
against them forces military, economic
and moral which were superior to
those that they could command. The
end was surrender, a forced admis-
sion of guilt, forfeiture of colonies,
one-sided disarmament, enemy oc-
cupation of integral provinces. The
reaction came in bitter resentment
with an intense determination to re-
establish national prestige.
Says Hitler's Link Breaking.
At the same time there were 6,000.-
900 working people unemployed, their
relief utterly inadequate, their future
prospects desperate. A great part OF
the middle classes had lost almost all
they possessed through the imitation.
Patriotism and social discomfort were
both at the highest pitch. Hitler
came and linked them together. Now
the link is breaking.
Hard economic facts will not obey
the orders Of politicians. Demonstra-
tions and perorations will not bring
sales and profits, work and wages.
The crude expedients that have been
adopted in Germany might bring re-
lief for a moment, but soon made
things worse. You cannot cure IN
employment simply by requiring each
individual manufacturer to engage
more workers, whether there IS work
for them or not. You cannot perma-
nently impose upon country the
burden of a system of subsidies, direct
or indirect. in order to maintain an
export trade. You cannot support the
currency indefinitely by Withholding
from your manufacturers raw ma
terials they need to import.
Prosperity Evades Hitler.
If in Germany during the last II
months trade had prospered, produc-
ton had markedly increased, unem-
ployment had genuinely been dimin-
ished, and its reduction had not been
at the cost of lowered wages for les
sened hours for those already en-
ployed; if the national finances had
been restored and the mark had been
fortified; if throughout the country
there had been a general sense oil
growing prosperity and a conscious
ness of greater domestic comfort, then
probably there would have been no
crisis. But these results have not
been achieved.
Other causes have contributed-thc
profound disturbance among multi
tudes of conscientious Protestants and
Catholics at the actions of the regime
in the sphere of religion; the reac-
tions, internal and external, from the
persecution of the Jews; the mutual
hatreds among the men in high Of
fees which resulted in the assassina-
tions this Sun1meR~these have been
among the sources of the weakness
which has become apparent. For Of
this there Is no doubt-acts such as
those which have recently shocked the
world, deeds Of extreme violence,
wholesale executions, these are always
sign, not of strength, but of weak
ness.
The people who care deeply for
social progress are not the same peo-
pie as those who are thrilled by mill
tarism. A spirit of solidarity and
mutual helpfulness at home cannot
dwell with spirit of antagonism, en-
visaging war, abroad. Progress in one
sphere is not to be combined with re-
action in another, and any attempt
to unite progresSives and reactionaries
in one movement must fail.
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