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either. Nevertheless, there's a bit Of
circumstantial evidence in support
of it. On analysis it doesn't sound
altogether improbable.
Everybody'll remember that, only
quite recently. Jap Foreign Min
lister Matsuoka visited Rome and
Berlin to ask Duce Mussolini and
Fuehrcr Hitler how Nippon could
be most helpful to totalitarianism
in destroying the domocracies, that
Adolf told him that one way would
be for him to arrange a Jap-Rus-
sian pact, that Minister Matsuoka
did it, that, almost Immediately
thereafter, Germany launched
blitzkrieg against the Soviet
Union, and that this sequence Of
events made Minister Matsuoka
look like such sucker that ia
pans Premier Konoye kicked him
out Of the Toxic cabinet.
1t wasn't easy to see why Adolf
should have plotted deliberately to
double-eross his Japanese caller.
considering that the latter was
friendly to him. The general sur
mise was that he really wanted the
Jap-Russian pact when he suggest
ed 1t; then suddenly changed his
mind and went ahead with his new
program entirely regardless Of the
fix in which he was involving Min
lister Matsuoka.
The latest story makes better
sense than that guess did.
Army Decides
The latest ones to the effect
that Adolf did, indeed, want a jap
Russian pact and didn't intend,
then or thereafter, to attack the
Soviets mot so soon, anyway, but
that the German army command
considered the time ripe for the
blitz and turned it loose, telling
Adolf TO go chase himself.
That's some Of the circumstan-
tai evidence previously mentioned.
Now for the analysis.
What class additionally runs the
German army? Why, the junkers.
And the junkers are the Father
lands military aristocracy. They
never were democratic, but neither
were they socialistic, like Herr
Hitler and his Nazis. They were
privileged nabobs. They got along
with the kaiser because he was
one Of EN-. So was President Won
Hindenburg. The won" at the
front end Of his name testihes to
his noble rating.
But Adolf was just measly lit
tie workingman-not a won" or
anything. a mere house painter.
A marshal? Heck, no. A cor
poral.
And yet he wormed in some
how. and Debated junkerdom.
Does it stand to reason that the
tunkers liked 1t?
He caught EN-, initially. at
time when junkerdom was in an
awful state OF disorganization.
Probably. while he was building
himself up, the 1unkers didn't real
ize what was happening to 'em.
BY the time they did realize II,
he'd put his stunt across and there
wasn't anything they could do
about 1t until some favorable OPP
portunity presented itself. Maybe
they thought they sensed such an
opportunity in connection with the
present situation.
II so, why don't they tie an &C
tual can onto Adolf or liquidate
him, as well as chuck him into the
background, still as a nominal,
though no longer a sure-enough
fuehrer7
The likeliest answer is that he
continues TO have, as yet, quite
rank-and-fle following, and the
Junkers deem ii unwise to be pre-
maturely over-obvious.
As additional circumstantial evil
dence, does Rudolf Hess flight TO
Britain signify anything? It's a
little too soon to say as to that,
but 1t may turn out to be actual
testimony.
How About Goering?
And than fnr anothar runnor.