A NEW HITLER

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1934, Page 5

A NEW HITLER

ONLY A SYMBOL COUNTRY’S WIDE CORRUPTION. (United Press Association—By EJectrl* Telegraph— Uopyrigh oj LONDON, July 7. Although Hitler’s prestige is still enormous, lie has ’become a problem in himself, states the “Manchester Guardian.” His gesticulating volubility grows constantly more irrepressible, and jlifs weeping fits are more frequent. lie is .surrounded by limitless adulation, producing an unreal atmosphere. He is nceoniing more and more a symbol and less and less a personality. Many Nazis wbo were wild with hope when Hitler became the-Chancellor are now in despair. Whenever the dictatorship has halfsolved a problem, such as the employment it created, it lias intensified others. Its attempted unification of the Reich threatens to produce disunity greater than In Bismarck’s days.

The attempt to standardise religion has produced a bigger conflict than the Reformation.

The dictatorship’s foreign policy, tending to- a strong Germany, lias led to complete isolation, forcing Hitler to retreat before Mussolini, and has only benefited Russia, whicih the Nazis desired most to injure.

Germany has become one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, owing to the Storm Troops and secret police. The German crisis is not an ordinary economic and political one, hut a catastrophe has befallen German civilisation, continues the newspaper. Germans who ■answer the question of how Germany can be saved chiefly belong to the Right Wing. They declare Germany must- ho ruled constitutionally and justly in accordance with the standards of civilised nations, and must return to sound finance. They admit Germany was never loved, and never will he, but must he respected and in order to achieve that respect must he respectable.