Evening star., 1934-01-28
One Year of Hitlerism
Where Does Germany Stand? Will Leaders Saber RHng Lead WARP
What Has to Trade?

came 10 power alter the upSWlng Qdo
begun, and he naturally is taking credit
for 1t.
The German banks have not been
nationalized, nor have the trusts and
cartels gone on a proflt-sharing basis.
The department stores are in full oper-
alton, and the golden age OF the small
tradesman has not yet come. The
large landed estates have been left prac-
tically untouched and the mortgages
have not been wiped out, although in
reduced. The machine still rules su-
preme.
Strikes and Lockouts Banned.
The result Of the struggle of three
quarters of century was wiped out
in the labor law. issued 10 days ago,
abOlishing trade unions and outlawing
both strikes and lockouts The sys-
tenn of collective agreements between
employer and employe was replaced by
the medieval system of making the en-
ployer the master and the employe his
dependent. This has reintroduced a
regime Of benevolent tyranny m which
the leader must care for his follower
out of the goodness Of his heart and
for patriotic reasons. This measure
was passed as payment for the money
spent by the captains of industry in
promoting a so-called Socialist move
ment, the socialism of which works for
the benefit of the employer
Nevertheless. the Hitler government
has introduced a few revolutionary
changes. One Of the most radical
measures is the law empowering the
government to form compulsory indus
trial and trading associations. These
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of obligations on their members: they
can make them restrict their output
reduce or increase their prices. fix a
minimum working day and minimum
wages. In some respects they are akin
to the code associations in the United
States. with the difference. however
that in Germany the government has
broader rights
Another important measure gives the
German minister of food and agricul-
ture the most sweeping powers imagin-
able He can DO whatever he wants
with the products of the soil. A cor
poration of peasants has been formed
and through this the Hitler government
may extend its dictatorial power as far
as the pigsty of the poorest peasant
The corporation-which is, Of course,
under government supervision-has the
age. modify the price policy. import
and export farm products. have the
farmer Jailed if he not good Nazi or
throw him of his farm if he fails to
comply with the regulations. 1t may
also fix the peasants profits or oblige
him to work for none. The government
placed the mills under licensing sys-
TEN. obliging them to sell and buy at
prices fixed by the state. Should q
farmer produce more than his quota
he may be punished.
Create Hereditary Farm"
Another revolutionary measure was
the creation of the hereditary farm,
the object Of which is to breed what
the Nazi minister of agriculture called
the royal peasant" The characteristic
trait of such farm is that it passes
undivided to one heir and that 1t can
not be sold or mortgaged and is exempt
from attachment and seizure. The
beneficiaries of this act are expected to
become the aristocrats Of the Third
Reich.
Has Germany succeeded. at least to
a certain extent, in becoming self
sufficient? An effort has been made to
keep out several farm products by the
erection of higher tariff walls and i'm
ports have been reduced to the mini
mum. Yet the other day the minister
of economics expressed the hope OF
entering into improved trade relations
with other countries. If Germany wants
to increase her exports she cannot cut
herself of from the world
AS the Hitler regime enters its second
year it can look back upon a part of
its record with satisfaction 1t has
stamped out civic freedom more thor
Italy or Russia did Germany today
accepts the Nal yoke either with ex-
uberant enthusiasm or with resignation.
The component states of the Reich have
been "co-ordinated." the freedom Of the
press Is memory and freedom of speech
is not tolerated.
In dealing with the Jews the Nazi
regime fulfilled nearly all its promises
Germany'S Jewish population has been
cast out of the cultural and political
life of the country. World-famous SCI
entistS, winners of the Nobel Prize and
men who have given luster to Ger
many's literature are branded as public
enemies A seal on the door of Albert
Einstein's home-a man whom the
world considers one of the greatest Gre
ative geniuses of the age-stamps him
as traitor because of his religion. But
the Nazis have made a few curious ex-
ceptions. even among the Jews. For the
time being they have spared the men
whom they formerly denounced as the
cause Of Germany's misfortunes-the
rich Jewish bankers"
Change in World Views.
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been a marked change in the way the
rest of the world sees Germany While
the republican Reich enjoyed the ad-
miring respect Of English speaking
countries. the Third Reich gets their
most severe criticism. France. as a
whole sees the justification of the lingo
slogan, "A Boche remains always q
Boche"
Some part of the French Nationalist
press. however, displays considerable re-
straint in its treatment Of NAzi Ger
many. Never did 1t show so much re-
gard for republican Germany under her
early Socialist regimes, which staked
their entire future on friendly relations
with their neighbors. The explanation
may lie In the reputed connection Of
certain Nationalist newspapers with the
Comite des FORCES, the organization of
heavy industries, which had no interest
in pacifist Germany that seemed to
jeopardize the future Of the armament
business. Moreover. a successful Social
ist regime in the Reich might not have
halted at the Rhine, but perhaps would
have encouraged the French to strike
out for new adventures in political
economy.
The visitor to Germany is necessarily
reminded by the Nazis that their rule
is meant to stay for hundreds of years.
To them Hitler's Third Reich Is the
definitive German paradise. At the
present moment it seems that they are
free to dictate their own terms to the
Junkers, and that after President Hin
denberg's death they will rule even
more completely than they do today.
The economic upswing is helping
them, and they have succeeded In in
stilling a contagious enthusiasm into
millions Of Germans. Their efforts for
the maintenance Of peace are genuine
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