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HARPLY, dramatically, the attempt to assassinate Hitler throws light upon the condist within Ger- many which, up till now, has been fought secretly.
Upon the conflict? Or per-
haps
it would be truer to say
upon one of the conflicts.
be the immediate
What will
effect of this attempt at assassina- tion? Almost certainly to in- crease the popularity of Hitler among the mass of the German people.
It may seem illogical, but it is nevertheless historically true that the escape of a ruler from assas- sination usually produces a ten- porary wave of mass emotionalisin and popular veneration,
Will
In
lously saved from
of
That
almost certainly happen on this occasion. It will be the business of the Nazi pro- puganda machine to whip that re- action to a frenzy of devotion in which the discontent and anxiety felt by millions of ordinary Ger- mana at finding themselves at war with Britain and France will be submerged wave of hero- worship for the leader miracu
danger by God. It has, indeed. been suggested that the bomb explosion in the Munich beer cellar was arranged for just this
purpose that it is a variant
the Reichstag fre technique designed to re-kindle the wor devotion of
waning
of the Ger-
That I doubt. The risk, it seems to me, was too great though it is
remarkable A
coincidence that follow. Herr Hiller should have chosen curtail the the this one occasion to for
length of his usual stay at this
of celebration beer-cellar beginnings of National Socialism.
But it seems more
Lore probable that this
genuine attempt at campaign has not gone accord-assassination. And one coming ing to plan. Unannounced from well within the select circle mining of the merchant routes of the Nazi Old Guard,
of announcement, Hitler's German people for the Fuehrer. many has engaged upon the un- restricted piracy of 1917. The
consequences Resort to mines advertised intensification of
same
| attack on merchant shipping is a confession that the submarine
was tried spasmodically in the last war, and from time to time caused heavy loss. There are doubtless new forms of German mine and minelayer, but measures to cope with them will assuredly prove as effective as In the past. The resort to indiscriminate mine laying is now being acclaimed in the German Press after a ludicrous false start of declaring the mines not German-as proof that Hitlerlam rules the waves. The British blockade, neutrals are being instructed to believe, is more dangerous to them than to Germany, That will not sorve. Germany's neighbours know. very well the desperation to which our blockade is driving her. The blatant boast that neutral, shipping is being sunk to frighton the neutral countries will not console Holland and Italy and Jugoslavia and Japan for the murder of their citizens and the loss of their vessels.
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Was a
the
It is that particularly which must be worrying Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. It is as though allowing for the milder methods of democracy-someone at the Carlton Club should get up and
box Mr. Chamberlain's cars:
How near to the centre of the circle these responsible for the at- tempt are, it is not possible to say. But it must be remembered that there have for some time been re- ports and very well-founded re- ports of divisions within the Nazi temarchy and that the politicat history of all the Noel lenders is one of terrorism and violence.
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Within the somewhat wider circle of the Nazi Old · Gaard- those who were members of the party in the days of the abortive putsch of 1923 there is number of men who have now little causo to love Hitler. They are the and friends of Hitler's friend Heutenant of those days, Ernst Rochm, who with others on the Left Wing of the Nazi Party. was
purged when his usefulness to Hitler was over..
And there are many, too, who
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must have had their loyalty badly strained by Hitler's new friend- ship with Russia and who see from that friendship and from war with Britain and France, an end to what they thought National Socialism was working for..
True, it is a lang step from dis- agreement to assassination--but a step shortened by dictatorship in which opposition has no medium of expression save by the revolver or bomb.
One thing seems fairly certain That is, that this attempt, by the circumstances in which it was launched. must if it was genuine -have-come-from-within-the-Nazi
Farty.
Only members of the Nazi Party could have had an opportunity to place the bomb,
That is why I say there is here disclosed one of the conflicts with- in Germany-but only one.
There are others. What is likely to result from them?
It
18, of course, by the nature of things, dimcult to assess the ex- tent and strength of the opposi-. tion to Hitler within Germany or the likelihood of any effective re- sult from the opposition.
Before Munich the most com- pact opposition came frem within Army. the higher ranks of the
Supporting the Army group was a number of powerful Industrialists
If Britain had been firmer then.: they might have had the courage to strike and to depose Hitler on the ostensible excuse of a misuse of public funds which made it im- possible for the Army to regard Its oath to him as any longer bind- ing.
We were not Arm, and they were consequently afraid to stake. But some of them at any mte still remain of the same mind, and will, if an opportunity comes, take it.
It would seem, however, unlikely now that anything short of heavy military reverses will so disinte- grate the German morale as to give them their opportunity.
And there are, of course, the underground Communist groups which still despite the Russian agreement, are working against Hitler. But they are unlikely to be able to act decisively short of a Germany complete breakdown in
complete
defeat. milltary following And
perhaps not even then. When
a country is ruled by a cruel and ruthless tyranny there is, of course, always the possibility men will adopt that desperate desperate means and that there will be another and more success- ful assassination attempt, Just as
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there have been previous attempts, though none so spectacular as this.. But assassination rarely achieves the objects the nasassins geek. The. result is commonly, not to destroy a regime, but merely to call up such passions as make for an even greater tyranny than the old.
As for the people of Britain and France, assassination, is no weapon. of oura.
If we hope—as we do-for an overthrow of Hitlerism, by the German people. It is not by any such weapon that the new regime we wish for will come.
We are concerned, not merely with the deposing of a tyrant, but with ending that whole system of aggression
upon
which the German regime is founded.
It is foolish to think that if Goering, for example, were to re- place Hitler, the Nazi Government would immediately become
reasonable..and civilised Govern ment. The Nazi philosophy of aggression abroad and cruelty at It is home is not Hitler's n'one. shared by all the Nazi leaders,
And it is not simply the man who threatens the world's peace. It is the philosophy.
Nor could we expect any 'basis for a genuine and permanent peace out of a coup by the Army which would replace Hitler by a military dictatorship with perhaps, as a ngurehead, some Hohenzollern princeting though there are not uninfluential groups within Lon- don who see that as dealrable outcome of the present struggle.
The Army casto bears a heavy for Nazism. It may responsibility now be somewhat frightened by the antics of its protégé, but it did a great
deal to put Nazism where
it is and to destroy democracy in
Germany.
It was in the shadow of the myth of the unconquerable army be. trayed by treachery in the roar, which has been so much the curso of the German people, that Nazism was born. The intrigues of the Army leaders and their friends, the Junkers, and the senile pre- were of Hindenburg. Judices steps up
Hitler climbed which to power, for, though the economic crisis of 1031 gave him a consider- able middle-class backing. It never gave him a majorly.
It is not from such groups as these that the new Germany wil arise to play its part it now! Europe.
No. If we work, as we should, for revolt within Germany, it is a revolt of the common people of Germany that we should seek.
A rising led by Socialist and democratic
German revolution at the and the last war is the only rising h which a stable punco cari be built.
But this tima wo must-bo-ready to treat them,
Kriss when
We
be
with Justice and friendship were not prepared last time.
For only it wo do so will i possible to establish on the foun- dation of Denooralie and Socialist revolution a perceable. German. Blato taking its proper, place.'In" the federation of Europein
nations.