Evening star., 1944-04-20
Nazi Magma Chlarta'
10 Be Offered
To Europeans Soon
BY WADE WERNER.

seem 10 De getting ready TO pro-
claim some kind of Magma
Charta" for Europe, with the
double purpose of persuading
Europeans their best chance of
escaping postwar social and
economic chaos will be under
German leadership while con-
vincing the impoverished Ger
man masses they won't have to
go Bolshevik to get social justice.
Indications in this direction are
seen in discussions of the postwar
order appearing in the provincial
German press and also in the IT.
point program recently drawn up by
Quisling economists and social the
orists from all parts of Europe at
conference in Bad Salzbrunn.
At Bad Salzbrunn, which is stu
lated in Silesia relatively remote
from the threat of Allied bombs,
Hitler's followers could discuss amid
an atmosphere of peace and quiet
the postwar social structure OF
Europe.
17-Point Program Offered.
They frankly aimed at something
halfway between "the discredited
methods of the capitalistic social
welfare policy and the disruptive
antisocial slogans of class-war
Marxism." Their 17-point program
accordingly looks like compromise
between the 1896 Stain constitution,
President Roosevelt's -four free
doms," Britain's postwar housing
and social security plans, and the
principles of the Nazi party. For
instance:
Point four of the program empha-
sizes "the right to work of every
citizen" which sounds a little like
Stains constitution. Point eight
stresses the right of every family to
adequate living quarters and ade-
quate means of existence; in other
words, good postwar housing and
freedom from want.
Point 13 stresses the more album
dant life, specifically sufficient time
for leisure and the pursuit of cul-
tural activities. The 18th point en-
phasizes the necessity of applying
"the principle of the socialistic
order" to industry and agriculture,
and emphasizes that this applies to
farm labor as well as land but
avoids any reference to collective
farms.
Adaptation of Socialism.
This all adds up to what Is de-
scribed not as national socialism
but "voelkisch" socialism. Each of
the various peoples (voelker) Of Eu-
rope is expected to develop the type
of socialistic setup best suited to its
particular character and needs. The
general aim Is the creation of a
"socialistic Europe without a prole-
tariat."
An article published in the Ober-
schlesische Zeitung of Breslau, dis
cussing the postwar outlook for SOL
diers and workers. contains this
striking line:
After five years of war we are
once. again IN a situation similar
to 1882"
That was the year when the Nazis,
in full revolutionary fervor, prom
ised better world for the Germans.
HITLER came to power the following
year, but rearmament and the sub
sequent war compelled many post
ponements and deviations" from the
Nazi program, the article asserted.
10 Promises Made 10 Soldiers: y y |
However, it promised that as soon.
Fas the war ends the revolutionary
movement toward the achievement
of socialistic aims in the Fuehrer's
original program will be resumed.
Soldiers who fought and workers
who toiled will come into their own.
Our socialistic order" the article
added, will recognize no fat profits
Of do-nothing directors. It will see
to it that profits flow in increasing
measure to the people who do the
work"
Language such as this-especially
the reference to the year 1882, when
the Nazis were revolutionists who
had not yet achieved power-sug-
gests that some of them are think
ing the best way to recover from
the disaster of lost war Is to try
to win the postwar European revo-
luton.