The shadow of Hitlerism which lay over Germany is beginning to fade, the “Evening Standard” comments tonight. The constitution hammered out patiently twelve years ago at Weimar, (the author of which was a Jew, the late Hugo Preuss, at that time Minister of the Interior, who is honoured in Republican Germany as the “Father” of the Weimar Constitution) has stood the storm, the paper declares.
A victory for Sanity, The “Star” heads its editorial this evening. Hitlerism and Communism alike have failed in Germany, it says. That, in effect, is the significance of the result of the Prussian referendum. Extremism neither of the Right nor of the Left is desired. The citizens of Prussia prefer a democratic form of government to a dictatorship of Left or Right.
The verdict is a triumph for sanity, it continues. An assurance has been given to the world that Germany stands for ordered progress, and is determined to maintain that tranquility and steadiness of purpose which is the hope of the world. This decision, let it be remembered, has been taken in the face of an alliance between Communists and Nazis — as unholy an alliance as there ever has been in European politics. But the electors of Prussia have refused to be stampeded into wild and irresponsible gestures. To them the world will long have cause for gratitude.
The satisfactory outcome of the referendum, the “Manchester Guardian” writes in a leading article today, means that the most concentrated and vicious attempt to mislead the German people into following revolutionary paths has failed. It means that in spite of all her difficulties Germany’s political structure is potentially as sound as her economic.
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