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WHAT NOW IN
GERMANY?
ĮHARPLY, dramatically, the attempt to assassinate Hitler throws light upon the conflict within Ger- many which, up till now, as been fought secretly.
Upon the conflict? Or per- haps it would be truer to say upon one of the confilets.
What will be the immediate effect of this attempt at assassina- tlon? Almost certainly to in- crease the popularity of Hitler among the mass of the German people.
by Francis Williams
must have had their loyally 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 long step from dis- agreement to assassination-but a step shortened by dictatorship in which opposition has no medium
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- IRK
We were not firm, and they were
sination usually produces a tem of expression save by the revolver consequently afraid to strike. But
It may seem logical, but it is nevertheless historically true that the escape of a ruler from essas- porary wave of mass emotionalism and popular veneration.
That will almost ceriainly happen on this occasion. It will be the business of the Nazi pro- paganda machine to whip that re- action to a frenzy of devotion in which the discontent and anxiety fcit A
History is repeating Itself with instructive precision-At the beginning of February, 1917, Imperial Germany announced that she would, in a war zone round Britain, destroy shipping under any and every flag with- out regard to human safety. fortnight later, by Order in Council, the British Government provided that a vessel sailing to or from a neutral port giving access to enemy territory must submit to Allied examination or be held to carry goods liable to capture. Without the formality of announcement, Hitler's Ger- many has engaged upon the un- restricted piracy of 1917. The follow. consequences
same
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by millions of ordinary Ger- mans at finding themselves at war with Britain and France will be submerged in a wave of hero- worship for the leader miracu- lously saved from danger by God, It has, indeed, been suggested that the bomb explosion in the Munich beer cellar was arranged for just this variant of
it is a fre
purpose..
the
technique designed to re-kindle
the waning devotion of the
of the Ger- man people for the Fucher.
That I doubt. The risk, it seems to me, was too great-though it is a remarkable coincidence that Herr Hitler should have chosen this one occasion to
the curtail Resort to mines for the
length of his usual
atay
at this advertised intensification of
beer-cellar celebration of attack on merchant shipping is beginnings of National Socialiom.
But seems more probable that a confession that the submarine
this was a genuine attempt at campaign has not gone accord-assassination. And one coming
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.
Party.
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 is, of course, by the nature of to assess the ex- things, dificult to
tent and strength of the oppost- tion to Hitler within Germany or the likelihood of any effective re- sult from the opposition.
Before Munich the most com- pact opposition came from within Army. the higher ranks of the
some of them at any rate still remain of the same mind, and will, f an opportunity comes, take
it
It would scem, however, unlikely now that anything short of heavy" mliltary 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 complete breakdown in Germany ry deleat. military following complete And perhaps not even then,
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country is ruled by a cruel and ruthless tyranny there is, of course, always the possibility that desperate men will adopt desperate means and that there will be another and more success- ful assassination attempt, just as
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ing to plan. Unannounced from well within the select circle mining of the merchant routes of the Nazi Old Guard.
It is that particularly which must be worrying titler 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 ears.
was tried spasmodically in the last war, and from time to time enused heavy loss. There are doubtless new forms of German mino and minolayer, but measures to cope with them will assuredly provo as effective as in the past. The resort to
How near to the centre of the indiacriminate mine laying is circle those responsible for the at- now being acclaimed in the tempt are, it is not possible to say. German Press--after a ludicrous But it must be remembered that false start of declaring the mines there have for some time been re-
ports-and
very well-founded ro- not German-as proof that ports of divisions within the Nas! Hitleriam rules the waves. The
hierarchy and that the political British blockade, noutrals are history of all the Nazi leaders is being instructed to bellove, is one of terrorism and vision.co. more dangerous to them than to Germany. That will not serve. Germany's neighbours know
of putsch
1923 thoro iza very well the desperation to party in the days of the abortive which our blockade is driving number of men who have now little her. The blatant boast that cause to love Hitler. They are the neutral shipping is being sunk tzienda of Hitler's friend and Heutenant of those days, Ernst
within the somewhat wider circle of the Nazi Old Guard those who were members of the 12080
to frighten the neutral countries Rashm, who with others on the will not console Holland and Italy Left Wing of the Nasi Party, was and Jugoslavia and Japan for purged when his usefulness to the murder of their citizens and Hitler was over.
And there are many, too, who the loss of their vessels.
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there have been previous attempts. though none so spectacular as this.. But assassination rarely achieves the objects the assassins seek. The result is commonly, not to destroy a regime, but merely to call up as make for an even Buch passions 45 greater tyranny than the old.
As for the people of Britain and France, assassination is no wespon. of ours.
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
whit we wish for come.
crmon.
We are concerned, not merely with the deposing of a tyrant, but with ending that whole system of the upon
which regime is founded. It is foolish to think that if Goering, for example, were to re- place Hitler, the Nazi Government
Immediately would
become and ev
elvilised Govern- The Nazi phliosophy of on abroad and cruelty at is not itler's alone. It is shared by all the Nazi leaders.
And it is not simply the man who threatens the world's peace. It is the philosophy.
sonable
ment.
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Nor could we expect any basis for д genuine and permanent peace out of a coup by the Army which would replace Hitler by a military dictatorship with perhaps, as a figurehead, some Hohenzollern there are not princeling-though unirifuential groups within Lon- don who see that as desirable outcome of the present struggle.
henvy The Army caste bears
It may responsibility for Nazism. now be somewhat frightened by the antics of its protégé, but it did to put Nazism where a great deal It is and to deatroy democracy in Germany
It was in the shadow of the myth of the
unconquerable army be- trayed by treachery in the rear, which has been so much the curse, of the German people, that Nazism was born. The intrigues of the Army leaders and their friends, the Junkers, and the sonile pre- of Hindenburg. word steps up which Hitler climbed to power, for, though the economic crisis of 1031 gave him a consider- able middle-class backing, it never gave him a majority.
Judices
It is not from such groups, 'as these that the now Germany will arise to play its part in a new 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 lod by Bocialist and democratic groups such as led the German revolution at the end of the last war in the only rising on which a stable peace car be bulit.
But this time we must be ready to treat them, when they do arise with justice and friendship as we were not prepared last time.
For only if we do so wil it be possible to establish on the foun dation of Democratic and Socialist revolution a peaceable German Stato taking its prépar place in the federation
European nations,