Evening star., 1934-08-30

''Doornatis" in the Atlantic Monthly.
A writer in an American weekly
has recently asserted that unhappy
William, exile of Doom, today Is
ANONYMOUSLY forgotten as he univer-
sally was execrated half generation
ago." Possibly this writer, since he
had Just been referring to the vio-
lence of Mussolini's expressions as to
the necessity of war, merely meant
that the Hohenzollern hag-waving
and sword-rattling are forgotten. II
he knew the conditions he certainly
could not make such statement with
any broad and general meaning, for
wilhelm Won HohenZollern, quietly
studying archaeology and interna-
tional politics, controlling the arrange
ment of his garden and choosing
plants for his village rosaHum, or
supporting by his purse and influence
the charitable activities of his wife,
still stands to large proportion of
Europeans as the center of a policy
that is by no means dead.
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Those of us who see the German
as he is outside his country, and
thus free from the tyranny of dicta-
torship, and with the memories OF
the years of war now vague, if not
entirely faded, know how readily he
lends himself to the alluring influence
of a renewed tradition, a tradition
only made perfect after the struggles
in the middle of last century, but
dating back through the ages. That
influence, Suppressed by existing cir
cumstances, cannot work very greatly
on the German at home. So soon
as it gains sufficient support abroad
to exert itself freely and to overcome
the power of a policy that differs
little in essence from its own, but
which in practice is more brutal and
bloody, the vast majority of the newly
unified German nation will submit
to it with satisfaction and joy. Herr
Otto StrasSer, the brother of Gregor
StrasSer, who was one of the victims
of Hitlers June panic. has stated that
the Junkers, big banks and industry
are still the ruling powers in Ger
many and will remain so. They are
the outward signs of that success
which the German in the depths of
his nature admireS and worships."
There, in a few words, we have the
secret of every political change in
Germany-the worship of success.
And the monarchic movement is al
ready winning that success. SO that
every vote in it's favor. every cheer
given for the former (and probably
future) Kaiser, gains double strength
in the reaction and echo it arouses
from those who have not the desire
or the ability to decide for them
selves. In spite of the brave words
of Goring and Frick as to the failure
of both monarchy and republic and
their acknowledgment of the merits
of the great Prussian kings of the
past, the suppression of the monarchic
organizations early this year was an
acknowledgment of that success.
That prince of the Roman Church
OF the standing of Cardinal Faul-
haber dares to speak as he has done
against the action of the National
Socialist government is not sur
prising, but that his words have been
allowed to go almost unchallenged
and he has been permitted to remain
free to continue his protests is. in
view of the usual treatment of those
who differ from the dictator, sure
sign that there are some opponents
and critics whom Hitler dare not
openly resist. Such critics as Faul-
haber do not, it is true, stand for
any opposing political party, and
least of all for that of the mon
archists, but their utterances serve to
remind the people that other rulers
may be even better than those at
present in power. Still more, they
strengthen the hands Of those who
for reasons Of policy, from sheer