The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-11


 W Of world prosperity crashed in 1929, the ringmasterB of Germany recognized the approach Of their opportunity. Now, while tho world was completely absorbed In itB own problems, Germany could "Bhake off the last letters of the Vers sailles Treaty"
 By this time even before Hitler assumed power, the aSe0ndaney or the militaristB in Germany was 50 complete that the eoili1try'B mlli' tary expenditures surpassed those of France, whose army was sup" posedly fiYo times greater, Mean- while the German masses were be- ing driven to despair by unemploys ment,
 Druenings cabinet Of front fight. CTS was succeeded by tho cabinet of barons, under Franz Yon Papen, rSponsible to the executive alone This cabinet allowed itself to De moved about like puppets by Adolf Hitler, When 1t removed the Bfuen. ing ban on the storm Troopers, the Hitler Party, which had already rolled up big vote, gained tFe' mei1douB momentum,
 Before very long, PnponS eabl. net was oVefthroWn through Hit- lers intfigues, and General Kurt von Schleicher stepped in as ehan' ceiloF.
 Suddenly, while in the midst of negotiations with French and Eng fish representatlVeB V0n Schleiehs CT realized that Germany could actually get whatever she wanted by merely applying diplomatic and economic 'progBureB, Then, inner reforms and concessions foreBhads owed by the Allies made the old secret staff man believe war could be avoided. That opinion sealed his doom. The JunkerB and NaziB had become too strong, By their coms bined forces he was oyerthrown and, on June 90, 1894, Hitler had him aSSiSslnated,
 WHEN Hitler became chancellor W Of Germany, the Nazis, in power at last, were able to toss their economic bombshell-proclamatio of new moratorium,
 They allowed foreign business men to negotiate with German itl. terests in an effort to secure what small payments on their loans they could get. They froze and unfroze the foreign balances in their banks to suit their political purposes, They were too poor to pay their debts, but they had plenty Of money to buy raw materials for war And they bought freely, on the world markets.
 THE Germans stole q march on | the rest of the world in using economic legerdemain to bemuse their victims. They have had 26 years Of successful practice. Their land conquests in World War II gave them, even if temporarily, new resources-raw materials, factories. foundries. and finishing plants for industrial exploitation.
 It also provided their leaders with new, first-hand Knowledge of foreign hideouts and enabled thme to explore native populations for future renegades and quislings for the coming war-in-peace. For that new war will be primarily an economic conflict, and what then is more necessary than business stooges conveniently placed in strategic trading centers? Men who, on their own home ground, will be ready to guide, for their personal profits, the German industrialists and businessmen in the vanguard of the new German invaders. Many German representatives of the very companies which co-operated with the secret general staff in bringing about World War II, have for some time been slipping out of Germany, with Nazi permission. They go to Switzerland, to Portugal. to Spain, to Turkey, to Sweden. Everywhere they become, miraculously, anti Nazi. But they loudly pipe the Nazj tune: "ChaoS will engulf Europe" they cry, If the German economic system is not saved. The demo- cratic nations must win, of course, but they must be merciful. they must leave us our holdings"
 These Nazi agents trust that we won't recognize the old sympathy gag, or noticing, will still be afraid to ignore it.
 (TO Be COntinued)