Evening star., 1939-08-04
Bruening Reported Assisting
Nozis Seek Donzig Settlement
Former Chancellor
Declared Cominq
To See Roosevelt
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER,

BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER,
Chcaso Daily News Foreign Correspondent
PARIS, Aug. (By Radio The
news that German emiSsaries are
again in London in hope of reach
ing some sort of compromise about
Danzig on condition that they are
promised in advance that Danzig
will be theirs, does not any longer
surprise French circles. They are
coming to believe that this is all
part of the German campaign to
break the nerves of the democracies
by a combination of threats and
peace offers calculated, in their
opinion, to arouse the secret hopes
of all secret pro-Fascists and Mu-
Mich partisans while terrifying pac-
fists.
1t is curious that a sort of ally
of the Nazis in this campaign
though perhaps an unwilling ally
seems to have reappeared in the
person of DR.. Heinrich Bruening,
one-time chancellor of Germany
and one of many Germans whose
ingrowing nationalism induced them
to accept the arrival to power of the
Nazis as a sort of fatality. Bruen-
ing did, at one time, forbid the Nazi
private army but, under pressure
from President Wilhelm Won Hin
denburg, he almost Immediately re-
scinded the order, after which there
was no holding the Brown Shirts
They showed small gratitude to
Bruening and he is among the Ger
man refugees.
On Way to United States.
According to persons who have
had the opportunity of talking with
the former chancellor, he is now
on his way to the United States with
the task of convincing President
Franklin D. Roosevelt-it is al
leged-that Americas mission in
case of war is to remain aloof until
both sides are exhausted and then
to intervene to secure what Dr.
Bruening and his friends will call a
Just peace
DR.. Bruening, has, it is said, been
trying to convince the British that
the return of Danzig to Germany,
even to Nazi Germany, is merely
right and proper. Even the German
rape of Czecho-Slovakia does not
seem to have disturbed Bruening
The reason for his activity-the same
source alleges-iS his growing con-
viction that if Germany once more
attacks the Western World and loses,
there will not be any woodrow Will
son to intervene to save the Reich at
the last moment-unless, of course,
the German people, by revolt, have
shown a real willingness to disasso-
ciate themselves from the Nazis.
Talk of Permanent Solution.
There is much talk in serious
British and French circles, even
among those which hitherto have
been friendly to the Germans, about
the necessity finally of solving the
German problem once and for all
or at least for a long time in a man
ner that would not be pleasing to
German nationaliSts.
1t is perhaps in order to forestall
such a possibility that DR.. Bruening
is going to Washington to try to
convince the Americans that after
a war in which Germany would at
tempt to reset its foot on the neck
of the Poles, Hungarians and Ru-
manians, just as it has its foot al
ready on the necks of the Czechs and
Slovaks, the United States ought to
intervene to prevent sloW-Working
factors like a blockade from even
tually encompassing the defeat OF
the fatherland.
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