SAUCE FOR THE GANDER

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 91, 17 November 1939, Page 3

SAUCE FOR THE GANDER

Dr Hermann Rauschning not long ago stood high among Nazi leaders. As President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig, he stood close to the Fuehrer aiid the rest of Nazidom's chieftains until their an-ti-Semitic and other outrages drove him into uncompromising opposition. In his book, "The Revolution of !Nihilism," he says:—Other nations, into whose veins the poisons of Nazidom have not yet entered, must rally to smash Nazi Germany's dipI tatorship, "which draws its destructive energies from the directionless revolution, a revolution merely for revolution's sake." It is in the forces of true conversatism, according to Dr. Rauschning, that hope of deliverance lies. Despite this statement, he does not rule out the possibility of the eventual overthrow of the Nazis, net by conservative elements, but by a Socialist revolution "aiming at the classless society under the dictatorship of the proletariat." He gives the following succint and illuminating summary of one of his talks with the Fuehrer before their break:—Hitler'had told me that morning what was his view of the values of treaties. He was he said, to sign anything. He was ready to guarantee any frontier and to conclude a non-aggression pact with any one. It was a simpleton's idea not to avail one's self of expedients of this sort, because the day might come when some formal agreement would have to be broken. Every pact sworn to was broken or became out of date sooner or later. Reviewing the book, a writer in the New York Times comments:—Maybe the Muscovites, knowing that interesting little quirk in the Fuehrer's mind, will show him, one of these days, that what is sauce for tSe goose is sauce for the gander.