Evening star., 1938-12-18

The tOlLOUtng story by the chief of
the Associated Press Bureau in
Berlin not only reueals that Goer-
ing remains the No. man, re-
garded as Hitler's successor. but
tells many other interesting facts
relative to recent developments in
Germany.
BERLIN-For the first time since
Adolf Hitler came into power in jan
uary, 1885, the radicals in the Nazi
movement have been able to put some
thing over on Hermann Goering, pillar
of the conservative section of the move
ment.
His signature has been affixed to the
DEGREES of November IL and % whereby
German Jews must pay collectively a
penalty of $4O0 00O, 900 for the murder of
Vom Rath at Paris by young Polish
Jew, and repair at their own expense
the damage done by hoodlums during
the orgy of destruction November 10.
More than that, he has set his name to
the reason which was given for these
punitive measures.
The Jew must himself pay for the dam
age to his property, it was said in the
decree of November IL, because this dam
age was "occasioned by the indignation
OF the people over the incitement of in
ternational Jewry against National So
cialist Germany"
Those in the know assert that the
doughty, heavy-set, square -jawed field
marshal had to play with the leftists be-
cause he was in danger of losing ground
as Germany's No man.
At time when nobody else dared ad-
wise Hitler against going the whole limit
in the Czecho-Slovak crisis during the
portentious September days. Goering cau-
toned against making out-and-out war.
Apparently Goering received small
thanks for thus siding with the mod
crates.
Sulking Evidence Seen.
At any rate the story is generally cur
rent in Berlin that Adolf Hitler, when
| the crisis was over, told his inner circle
that only two men had stood unflinch-
ingly behind him throughout in his de-
termination to risk even war to gain his
ends with reference to Czecho-S -Slovakia: !:
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, the foreign
minister, and Heinrich Himmler, chief
OF the Gestapo or secret police.
Soon thereafter Goering made public
announcement that he was so busy with
the four-year plan and its execution that
he would not accept invitations to party
rallies or social events this winter.
Some observers saw in this gesture a
sign that the mighty lion of the move
ment was sulking in his den.
Others probably more correctly inter-
preted this to mean that Goering, as di-
rector of the general economy movement,
which the execution of the four-year
plan involved, considered it a waste of
energy that every party big-wig felt he
must attend every rally, every demon
stration and every public appearance of
some other top leader.
Goering next showed his independence
by having his baby girl Edda, christened
November by the Lutheran Reichs-
bishop Ludwig Mueller, with Adolf At-
Ter as godfather.
The theological leaders of the Nazi
movement, headed by Alfred Rosenberg
have left no doubt but that triumph OF
Nazi-ism must also mean the abdica-
ton of Christianity. To them, Goering
was not behaving according to Hoyle in
giving Christian baptism to his child.
Neopagans Hit Back.
The neopagans, who happen to coin.
eide with the radicals of the Himmler
| 1,pV ri oNf ny1
in hitting back; few days later the
German newspaper leader was Informed
that Rudolph Hess, the Fuehrer's deputy
had been host during ceremony of Civ.
ing Nordic name to his recently borr
child.
This ceremony, too, took place ir
Adolf Hitler's presence. 1t was non.
Christian rite.
Then came the Spontaneous" anti
Jewish demonstrations of November 10
with their burning of synagogues, smash
ing of windows, demolition of furniture
and furnishings and pillaging of shop
and even private homes.
Goering, according to reports, wa
furious
He-the conservator of every bone
every used metal tube, every rag, ever.
ounce of scrap iron-learned with painet
surprise that costly bales of cloth wer'
thrown into the streets and lighted
thousands of marks worth of chocolat
; dumped on the pavement and trample,
upon, pottery, glassware and porcelain
. knocked to bits and edibles pitched ou
of grocery stores and destroyed.
The reports by those who during tn
ensuing weeks were charged with col
lecting the bones, tubes, ETC., from tn
various households each week Shove,
that people were no longer eager to save
!. 1 The collectors were rebuffed agail
t and again with the words, "Why shoul
l we take the trouble to save when evi
IDENTIFY there's such plenty of all neces
y sites that you can afford to throw ther
, on the streets"
Q Moreover, the anti-Jewish action cam
!. just as Goering was trying to step u