Evening star., 1937-09-06
The Fascist Clan.

AS Nazl Germany forgatherS in accus-
toned myriads at Nuremberg for its
annual revival meeting and the greater
glorification of Hitlerism, the Reich is
preparing to be host to two foreign
visitors of eminence-Premier Mussolini
OF Italy and Prince Chichibu, brother
OF the Emperor of Japan, The fanfare
amid which their arrival later this month
is already heralded discloses Nazi pur-
poses to magnify the occasion into an
impressive demonstration of solidarity
among the elements, which, in Europe
and Asia, personify the dictatorial
theology and the antithesis of democracy.
TO accentuate the widening circle of
Fascism, General Franco is expected to
send delegates to Nuremberg, to lend his
benediction to the reproclamation of
Nazi goals and German accord with
Italy. Mussolini is also sending an i'm
posing mission to the Hitler love-feast
including an air force detachment.
While the Nuremberg carnival has the
immediate limelight, it is the visit of II
Duce to Der Fuehrer a week later that
assumes major Importance. Berlin off,
cially advertises it as an event of
supreme significance" 1t is to dem
onstrate again the close idealistic rela-
tionship and unity of the gigantic
revolutionary movements which in the
two countries have led to new order
in the life of the people and the state"
All the arts OF glamorous publicity and
spectacle for which Nazi stagecraft is
famed will be employed to show Ger
many, Italy and the world at large the
power and glory of the Berlin-Rome
axis" Naturally, military display bulks
conspicuously in these plans. After being
entertained at Hitler's Bavarian high
lands hide-out in Berchtesgaden, Musso-
lini will bask in the red fire of a two
day welcome in Berlin. Then, as the
grand climax of his visit he will attend
the German army maneuvers in Neck
lenburg and Pomerania, which are to be
held on the most pretentious scale since
Kaiser days.
Duce and Fuehrer are meeting at the
most critical international juncture since
Versailles. East and west the nations
stand at the brink of crises which the
merest spark can turn into another con-
Migration. Because of the Italo-
German -Insurgent alliance the Spanish
war remains an enduringly potential
peril to peace. Approaching discussion
at Geneva of piracy in the Mediter-
ranean, with the finger of suspicion
pointing strongly at Italy, introduces an
acute note of danger into the situation.
Mussolini has taken public credit for
the share of Italian soldiers in the recent
rebel victory at Santander, removing all
doubt as to his identification with
Francois cause.
European Fascist sympathy with Japan
in the Chinese conflict finds its chief
manifestation in the German-Japanese
"anticommunist" alliance, with its sup
posedly unwritten pledges of military
cooperation in Russo-Japanese clash.
Prince Chichibus sojourn at Berlin will
lend fresh emphasis to the pact, though
it is question as to how ardent Tokio's
affections for the Reich may now be, in
the presence of the stubborn resistance
which Chang Kai-shek's German
trained armies are Offering at Shanghai.
The world does well to scrutinize closely
the impending gathering of the anti
democratic clans under Nazi auspices.
It contains the seeds of far-reaching
consequences In both Occident and
Orient.