Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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BY LemueI F. Parton
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NEW YORK.-Field Marshal
1 = Werner Won Blomberg is
Germany's buried ace. Astute
foreign observers find cumula.
tive evidence of this in hisDtight-
ening hold on the army and in
the new goodwill facade which
Germany is trying to erect with
his reassuring and now more
frequently repeated speeches.
"Other nations should not take il
lightly that we stretch out our hands
in Cancellation, says the war min
lister in an address quite patiently
intended for foreign ears.
Dispatches hint that before long
Der Fuehrer will be transported to
mystic vaIhalla in chariot OF
fire, there to remain as a symbol
while some less febrile citizen takes
care of mundane affairs. That will
be the intellectual, cultured, but not
monocled, General Won BlOmberg,
according to news from the watch
towers over seas.
In the endlessly repeated story OF
the praetorian aftermath of war and
revolution, he and his allies have
the army. Furthermore, he is more
capable of rationalizing Germany
and her needs in foreign relation
ships than the Gilbert and Sullivan
Goering, the inept Won Ribbentrop
or the intellectual rubberman Ros-
enberg.
This writer has a friend, a former
American journalist once stationed
at Berlin and now engaged in COM
mercial enterprise in Europe, who
sees in the German junkers, to
which class General Won Blomberg
belongs, the only hope Germany has
for rehabilitation without war. He
does not wish his name used as he
passes in and out of Germany. In a
letter mailed at Prague, he writes,
in part:
"Hitler still has tight hold on
Germany, but the real power is cas-
ing over to the army, and that
means Won Blomberg. Strangely
enough, / have found more brains
and more realism among the bull
let-headed officers and imperialists
of the World war days than among
the nazi fanatics. l have talked
to Won Blomberg several times and
1 don't think he believes word
of this racial nonsense.
tHe is an educated man who
knows that Germany will have to
make peace with the democratic
powers to get what she needs. He.
is diligent, and I believe open
minded student of history, and !
know he reads books which an ordi-
nary German citizen would have to
read secretly.
"I have an idea that if you read
the papers closely, you will see be-
fore long more and more stories
about Hitler's throat affection and
the necessity of his retiring to
Berchtesgaden for rest and medita-
ton. I have no idea that he will
be overthrown. He, will be merely
enshrined, while the old-line indus
trialists and junkers pick up where
they left off and get Germany back
on the track, if they can. The nazis
have been highly useful in solidify-
ing the country, for their purposes
at least, but in my view the ulti-
mate power rests where it always
has rested-in the army and the
money bags.
Germany is not ready for war.
Her 'ersatz' campaign has been sue
cessful only to very limited de-
gree. She cannot redress her trade
balance because her productive en-
ergies go into armament. She must
either fight or bargain her way out.
I have found the Discrimination to
war and the hope of new credit and
trade concessions much stronger
among the army groups and imperi-
alists than 1 have among the nazi
politicians. The former know more
about the actualities of war than
the latter, and they have a clearer
understanding of the imperative
need for raw materials and credit.
"Von Blomberg is going to do a
lot Of fronting for Germany in the
next year. Unless I am greatly
mistaken, he will bear many olive
branches. I do not consider him a
liberal in our sense of the word,
but he has brains enough to see that
France, England and the United
States have what he needs, and
must have, and he is going after it.
GAS you know, was caught in
Germany when the World war
started and I have no love for the
junkers, but they have lucid mo-
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