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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 7, 1939.
His Tongue Was Fire,
His Brain Was Ice,
And Misery Was His Fortune.
ITLER grew great on misery.
While he denounced the harsh
the. Versailles, lashed Treaty of greed of Jewish capitalists and the treachery of Jewish Communists, cried out against the brutal insole- ce of negro soldiery on German soil, cursed the dump horror of mass un- employment, and promised the pro- spect of sunlit days-Hitler thrived,
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Goebbels, the pale, club-foot- ed, envious playwright, rose to dominate the beer halls with his viperous tongue.
the main revenue of the Nazis. He closed the deal. ́
The Movement executed a wheel, marched to the right. "Anybody who goes vote-catching by promising higher wages in the present enslaved condition of Germany is ୫ scoundrel!" roared Hitler. Accused of joining hands with Reaction, he. jeered: "Good God! Who are the revolutionary front, then? Paul Levi, Jacob Goldschmidt and Wol- muth (Bavarian Catholic leader)?" Every Hugenberg newspaper front- paged the Nazi orator, the reels featured him, the money roll- ed in to the party chest. Said Hit- ler to his colleagues: "We are pass- ing a magnet over a dung heap. See how much iron is coming out!"
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Otto Strasser, who stood even fur- ther Left than his brother Gregor. protested. He was drummed out. Gregor submitted.
Mutiny broke out among the Ber- lin Brownshirts, they stormed Party Headquarters to demand their pay. Thanks to his new rich friends He Hitler could produce it at last. rushed to Berlin, pleaded with the mutineers, wept before them-and produced the money. He was not yet in the position to treat mutiny as he would one day.
When the French retired baffled from the Ruhr (and later from the would be immediately started and Rhine), when Liberal and Tory Gov- every member would take a personal ernments regained the power from path of loyalty towards him. Bitter- the Socialists in "Red" Berlin, when y as many resented his bullying all the mark was stabilised and Ameri- knew that without Hitler the Hitler They can investment poured back gold into Party simply did not exist.
surrendered. German industry Hitler sank.'
Down to the Beer Hall next, where The Nazi Party, which had secur-
been his own biggest fiasco had ed a fifth of all the seats in the
The monumental magni- staged. Bavarian Diet, nd had 32 members in the German Reichstag, began to ficent impudence of the fellow! His dwindle as swiftly as it had arisen. sense of psychology was right once thousand people The general election brought the
When Hitler M.P.s down to 14, the Bavarian local crammed the place.
walked in they shrieked for joy, group was quartered. Discontent and sullen insubordination spread jumped on the tables and wept.
He shouted, "All feuds must end! through the Party ranks.
The world trade blizzard began to his Landsberg gaol Hitler threaten- The past must be the past! Hence- chswehr-or possibly a rival army
forth we march over the enemy's to coerce the Reichswehr.
Hitler blow: And for Hitler it blew ed, resigned in vain. Gaping rifts
Julius had had enough of trynig to snatch nothing but good. His political appeared throughout the entire corpse, or he over ours!"
Streicher held out his hand to power by arbitrary methods. His fortunes mounted with the unem- Feder, whom he heartily hated; plan henceforth was gain power by ployment roll. The Communists Esser embraced Frick, whom he legal steps and apply the big stick appealed to the workless workmen. would happily have murdered. A afterwards. sea of slush engulfed the whole Hitler displayed superb gathering. mastery of men.' In that hour and from that hour onward he was call- ed Fuehrer, Leader.
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Hitler sulked, swore, screamed. But he kept his head. The fire pours forth from the mouth of this extraordinary man.
The brain re- mains ice.
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He quarrelled with Captain Rohm, who still wanted to march and drill and arm the Stormtroopers as a reserve army to reinforce the Rei-
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The Nazis appealed to the workless workmen, clerks, insurance agents, sales managers, to the 'bankrupt shopkeepers, farmers, business men, to the men "too old at 40" and to youths redundant at 18. Wide and far Hitler cast his net. The day after the general election. Septem- ber 14, 1930, he counted the fish
Rohm, tough, tubby, scarred, the restless mercenary who might have Straight from gaol he hurried to
He needed every inch of his to- stepped from the bloody pages the new Bavarian Catholic Prime wering political ability to keep his the Thirty Years War, went off to Minister, offered to support his head above water for the next six train Bolivia's army to fight in the Government "against the Reds."
Hitler was nearly submer- swamps of El Chaco. Goebbels, 107 seats in the Reichstag! At a The reception was cool.
ged by Prosperity Not until the pale, club-footed, envious play- bound the Nazis became the second
"When we party in State. Hitler made off for the Diet, rush- world passed into the gigantic slump wright, entered the Nazi ranks and ed into the Party meeting there of the thirties and unemployment rapidly rose to dominate the Berlin power," yelled Hitler, "heads will carrying his famous whip, and in Germany increased to seven mil- beer-halls with his viperous tongue roll in the sand!" Even Germany abused everybody. He then declared lions did he establish his situation It was the epoch of the propagandi shuddered. the Party dissolved. A new Party firmly.
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Hitler recalled Rohm from South America. In twelve months that the The Movement halted. At the organising genius had licked Party Congress in 1926 Hitler re- storm Troops into a militia of 600,- viewed a beggarly 5000 brownshirts. 000 men. They were "not young The genius of the photographer Hof- ladies," as Hitler admitted, but they fmann presented it as a mighty were magnificent street fighters.
And the street was the battle- host. In the north Gregor Strasser won new territory for the Nazis, but ground of Germany in 1930-31-32. had it was more a Strasser-Goebbels fief Seven million unemployed than a Hitler one. They spouted nothing to do but loaf around the street. Rohm opened his ranks pure socialism.
bitter. The Fuehrer was determined to to the toughest and most bust up that partnership. It brought With the Reichswehr he opened ne- in the crowds to the cheap seats, gotiations.
Meantime Hitler challenged Hin- but not the Select who should fill the
By stalls, And the Hitler Party was denburg for the Presidency. desperately hard up. At the next eighteen million votes to eleven mil- He fought like Congress he attacked the Left win- lion he was beaten.
He gers and crushed them. Goebbels a tiger at the second count. promptly deserted his comrade and was beaten again. However, he
polled thirteen million. - lined up behind the boss.
He atormed through Germany,
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Hitler rammed home his victory. He was already in touch with Kirdof, over Germany, flying by night to the redoubtable 82-year-old master vast torchlight demonstrations of of the gigantic Ruhr Coal Syndicate. a hundred thousand people... They Hugenberg, chairman of
drenching Krupp, waited eight hours in controller of UFA Film Trust and rain to hear him. Goebbels stage the supreme Press lord of Germany, managed the greatest circus of all was angling for Hitler's mass back time. Rohm paraded the army of ing for his protest campaign against the streets.. Eighteen abreast the the Young. Plan the most recent storm-troops tramped. "Clear the effort to screw reparations out of path for the Brown Battalions! The trum- German industry., He was ready Raise high the flags!""
the with enormous subsidies to pay for pots sound, the drums roll, effective propaganda. With a pang brown ranks, fill the roadway, the Hitler thought of the modest mark dense column goes lilting through per month per member which was (Continued on Page 11)