GERMAN POLITICS.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18158, 24 October 1930, Page 6

GERMAN POLITICS.

Ilerr Hitler, the leader of the German Fascists, has at a recent meeting declared his programme, ' It is somewhat bellicose, and calculated to cause uneasiness in Europe for he Indicates that, should he be in a position to do so, he would not hesitate to resort to arms in any effort to secure world domination for the Fatherland. The recent elections were undoubtedly a revelation; they upset European calculations as to the attitude • of the German people, as the Fascists and Communists secured the return of 183 seats in the Reichstag, representing 11,000,000 votes, or about one-third of the total. An English paper commenting on the situation says:—-“Ger-man Communism is of the brand made familiar by Moscow. Four millions of Germans are in favour, therefore, of destroying the existing political, social, and economic order, if necessary, by force. The Fascists, at the other pole of political thought, stand for the restoration of Germany as a military Power. Their policy includes revision of peace treaties and of reparations and recovery of the territories'lost in the war. Mussolini Is the model be : loved of . their leader, Herr Hitler. Backed by- Ludendorff, he tried to organise a march,on Berlin in 1923, but the affair proved a fiasco, and Hitler seemed to have found his level as a man with more vanity and ambition than brains. In the interval he has worked unceasingly for his ideal, and not in vain, as proved by a general election which has turned a party of 12 into one of 107. Hitlerism has arrived, and neither Germany nor Europe can quite comprehend its significance. It is certain, however, that if Ilerr Hitler were enabled to form a Government and proceeded to put his policy into operation, the result sooner or later would be war. To France the inspiration of Hitlerism is simply the 1 spirit of revenge.’ That spirit was supposed to have been exorcised by the admission of Germany to the League of Nations and the signing 'of the Locarno treaties. The Kellogg Pact, to whioh Germany has also subscribed, was intended to pile guarantee on guarantee and set up yet another bulwark of world peace. But before the ink is well dry upon these momentous documents, Herr Hitler’s gospel, which is a ‘ sign .of contradiction,’ of all that has alfeady been done, is accepted by millions of Germans as the true and authentic testament. As a consequence; immense power has been placed in the hands of a man' whose record proves his reckless audacity. The Reichstag is so unstable that another general election may not be far Germans may then think twice about repeating their present dangerous performance. On the contrary, we may find Hitlerism with an overwhelming mandate. Not a pleasant prospect.”