PLANS ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE

Revolution of Destruction" (Heinem.inn), makes a sensational attack upon the evils of a regime in which ho once believed. Rauschning, .former- wealthy landowner, joined the Nazi Party because ho saw in it «the salvation of his beloved Fatherland. Ho had fought and boon wounded in the Groat War. Ho yearned for the day when Germany would once again take a proud place among the groat nations of the earth, and ho saw in Hitler tho man to lead tho country back to recovery. Disgusted! And so ho became a leader of tho National Socialists. He took his place in the Danzig Seriate as Nazi President. Ho was prepared to make any sacrifices for his ooUntry—but before the naked, unscrupulous methods of tlio Nazi's he halted, appalled. When they tried to forco him to arrest Catholic priests, disfranchise tho Jews and suppress rival parties, he turned his back upon them in disgust. In "Germany's Revolution of Destruction" this man, who once enjoyed che confidences of Hitler, Goebbels and other party leaders, turns the spotlight upon Nazidom and paints a grey picture of its future. It is, he declared, doomed to fail. The Nazis, says Rauschning, want the earth, and they think they will get it. The return of Germany's colonies would not satisfy them. It would only be a prelude to greater demands, for they look upon world domination as their right. "Heuto gehort uns DeutscKland. Morgen die gauze* Welt. . . ."

■TN spite of his threats and loudI mouthed hoasts of invincible military power, Hitler ; daily draws hearer the hour when he must suffer the humiliation of seeing the collapse of all his vaulting ambitions. Wax 2 ' or no war, Nazi Ger-

many's! plan to dominate the whole world by force is doomed to failure. This is the reassuring message of a man who knows the Nazi Party and its aims from the inside—Hermann Rauschning, Prussian patricpt and ex-Nazi chief, who, in his book, 'Germany's

An Ex-Nazi Chief Predicts the Humiliation ofHitler

YOUNG MEN WITHIN PARTY WILL REVOLT

[ "To-day wo own Germany, tomorrow all the world."] These are lines taken from a marching song of the Hitler Youth Movement. Thus do the young men and women sing as they march to and fro at those enormous youth rallies that

"These eternal night marches, this keeping of tho whole population on the march, seemed to be a senseless waste of time and energy," he writes. "Only much later was there revealed in it a cunning purpose, based on a Well-judged adjustment of ends and means. • • ("Marching diverts men's thoughts. Marching kills Marching makes an end of individuality." . The ordinary German mari-iji-the-street listening to tho Fuehrer is swayed by tho lighting ' efleets, the special platform, the ordered applause and all the other gadgets of a, glamour machine. Hitlor is deliberately and unceasingly held up to masses an a deity. Startling Actions One of the principal devices for securing National Socialist dominance is the deification of the man. The Mes-siah-figure of the. leader is. tho indispensable centre of their propaganda, as carefully devised as the whole apparatus of power. ' "Some time before the seizure of power," Rauschning writes, "a prominent National Socialist expressed to me his opinion that the figure of the Leader must be withdrawn more and more into seclusion and surrounded with mystery. "He must only come visibly into the presence of the nation by means of

are an important part of modern Naziruled Germany. But even in this marching—perhaps the most effective and most characteristic method of. domination employed by National Socialism —Dr. Rauschning finds a weakness.

startling actions and rare speeches at critical moments in the national destiny." But Pauschning himself is unimpressed by such methods. "Party members," he declares, "are beginning to laugh at the Leader's spiritual outpourings, his sermons on art, his mediocre German, his crude economics. "Party Ir/adors are getting apprehensive about his speeches; they are 'dreadful.' Only among the faithful lnlt.v arc they still taken seriously as revelations of supreme wisdom." Crude Conceit It is Rauschning's view that any new. revolution in Germany will come, not from the workers, but the young men within the Nazi Party. : Behind a few well-worn cliches of loyalty to the Leader and'about the German nation there is concealed an outlook of undiluted materialism and a; lust for every sort of violence which will never be drilled out of the Storm Troops again. The-simplicity and crude conceit with which these men flaunt their brutality as though it were something to be proud of shows the results of their education. ; "They are full of desperately dangerous ideas," , says -Eauschning, who, while ho was /a member of the party, was. approached with a proposition to murder an unpopular Senator! But. there will be no uprising from the people,; he' maintains, so long as they bi.'lieve: ivhat the Nazis tell them. When ijhe scales fall from their r eyes— anarchy ! ; r '■ jAt trie moment the nation is held ir: bondage by the same methods of autosuggestion that keeps a mesmerised fowl inside a chalk-drawn • circle, and meanwhile the poison of unfreedom goes on working.