Evening star., 1939-11-19
Political Strategists Counseling
Hitler to Override Army Chiefs
Extremist Regime in View of
Restlessness of People
By Constantine Broom.

toAlAcS anu Clcu 1dH1lueS renamed
where they had been settled hundreds
Of years ago.
These proud defenders of Germanic
culture In the East were notified by
Herr Hitlers men five weeks ago, after
the Baltic states had been surrendered
to the Soviets, that they must clear out
within 48 hours, leaving behind every
thing they had possessed for centuries.
They had been under Russian regime
before, but they had been masters then.
Now they had to leave at once under
the penalty of being purged by the re-
cent allies of the Fuehrer. Their estates
were conflscated by Moscow. Their be-
longings, except what they could carry
in hand luggage, belonged to the Rus
sian Communists.
Col Won Hindenburg Chagrined.
These people were taken into Ger
many and received with open arms by
the Junkers A meeting of the Junkers
was held at Neudeck, the estate of the
late Field Marshal Paul Won Hinden-
ourg. The son of Germany's most
popular man, Col. Won Hindenburg, was
most qualified to be the spokesman of
the barons. He had been his fathers
secretary and was instrumental more
than any other in inducing the old Field
| Marshal to entruSt the Austrian cor
| poral with the premiership of the Reich
| Col. Won Hindenburg was instructed to
see the Fuehrer. He was kept cooling
| his heels at the Kaiserhoff Hotel for
several days, went back disguised and
| chagrined
| The German Army is still the most
arlstocratic army in the world. The
"Rangliste" (ofhcers' roster) of 1888
shows that 10 per cent of the officers
names have handle indicating the
arlstocratic origin of the man. The Ger
man officers corps is 100 per cent loyal
to the Fuehrer. But there is a distinc-
ton to be made between the Fuehrer
and Herr Hitler They care little for
Hitler, the Austrian upstart But they
are loyal to the Fuehrer of the Reich
who has brought the army back to its
old glory and prestige. The code of
honor of the German officer is very
strict. II man in the responsible po-
sltlon seems to betray the tradition of
the army and the patriotic ideals of the
country, the officers are no longer bound
in their loyalty to him.
The plight of the Baltic barons, the
reluctance of Hitler to listen to the
spokesmen of the old German military
tradition which was transferred in the
minds OF many officers from the old
| Field Marshal to his son, has created
a somewhat restless spirit in the officers
corps. 1t is not serious yet, but it may
become so unless things change The
leaders OF the army, Generals Won
Brauchitsch and Keitel are known as
'Hitler's men" They were selected by
the Fuehrer after the chief of the
Gestapo managed to get rid of Field
Marshal Won Blomberg and the Gems.
Won Frltsch and Beck, but they are still
German officers imbued with the
tradition of the German officers corps
Their loyalty, too, is to the Fuehrer
and not to Herr Hitler
The strategists of the party, Goebbels,
Hess, ETC., realize that their chief NAV
be skating on thin ice. They are urg-
ing him to move forward again. To
try to smash up the allied lines of
defense lest Germany should feel first
the results OF the war of food and
nerves The German people must be
| galvanized once more behind the Fuehrer
and all he stands for. Speeches alone
are no longer helpful; action is neces-
sary.
Death Attempt "A Put-Up job"
The attempt on Herr Hitler's life at
the Buergerbrau in Munich was, ac-
cording to the best information re-
ceived in Washington, a put-up job. 1t
is Tor this reason that the State Depart
ment has broken all diplomatic prece-
dents in refusing to send a telegram of
congratulation to the head of the Ger
man government with whom the United
States is technically on friendly terms.
The job was done to arouse the German
people once more to frenzy. Accord
ing to the latest reports received here,
the reaction did not reach the desired
height.
The entourage of Herr Hitler who
are left loyal to the man rather than
to the Fuehrer are urging him now to
o'SAAooh Oil Vic OUJcCtlOllS OF UQe gen.
eral staff and order an offensive on the
western front. Whether it will be
against the Maginot Line or against the
Netherlands and Belgian frontiers is
immaterial to them. Action must be
taken outside Germany in order to pre-
vent action from occurring within the
boundaries of the Reich. The war has
started; it must be prosecuted at any
price. The over-cautious generals, they
point out to Hitler, will never do any
thing. They are reminding the Fuehrer
that II he had followed the advice Of
the general staff he would never have
entered the Rhineland in 1896 when
Germany was not yet prepared to meet
the French on the battlefield. He would
never have pushed the British and the
French last year in regard to Czecho-
Slovakia had he listened to the advices
of caution of the same general staff.
Germany would not have entered Poland
had Herr Hitler been intimidated by
the reluctance of the same general staff
to have war with Britain, France and
possibly other countries as a result of
that invasion.
The war must be started in all earn
estness from now on-is the advice of
Hitler's political strategists who have an
eye on the internal restlessness of the