HITLER'S APPREHENSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 6

HITLER'S APPREHENSION

| | ITLI-ill'S apprehension concerning his own safety is growing. It. has for a time been known that, he engages a double to personate him. but lie feels it to be necessary, under even favourable circumstances, to take elaborate precautions. When he attended the Hierhalle in Munich elaborate precautions were taken to ensure his safety.while lie was going there, during his stav among the P>rown Shirts and party veterans and also during his return. Elaborate precautions are taken to ward off danger in his mountain home at Berchtesgaden and it is said that he has i.ear there a mountain eerie, to which he sometimes retires. Recently, speaking at Wilhelmshaven, the precaution was taken of placing a. bullet-proof screen before the Fulirer while lie delivered his oration and more recently during his birthday the living of aeroplanes over Berlin was strictly forbidden. These elaborate precautions tell their town tale. Not. long ago Hitler admitted that he did not hold the allegiance of many in Germain to-day. but lie took comfort, in the fact that llm.se were among the elder generations which were dying out, whereas through his party propaganda efforts he felt sure of capturing the minds of Germany’s youth. This naturally brings up the question whether the propagandist can oust the teacher. The teacher endeavours to encourage the pupil to think, while the propagandist tries Io close the mind of the persons operated upon. It is not to be denied that the. Mohammedan religion lias been the subject of propagandist effort and very satisfactorily and permanent 'y too. nut it is also true that, such communities as have been so dealt with have not progressed. On long range, therefore, the. propagandist is hardly likely to succeed, but Hitler is to-day ffly years of age and he is concerned not witli long-range probabilities. but with short-range possibilities. On very short-range he is increasingly apprehensive, but he hopes, say in ten years’ time, that a. new generation will have arisen whose, minds have been cast in the. Nazi mould and from which mould they cannot escape. It’s a big gamble and he may not be able to outlast the verv short-range. It is certainly troubling his mind deeply.