That official dispatches from Germany describing the June 30 “blood purge” and more recent events connected with it barely scratch the surface of the situation in that country appears to be the consensus among Pacific Northwest editorial writers.
The Vancouver Columbian, in an editorial, declares that “a great deal of guessing is being indulged in as to what is going on.” The Longview News expresses the opinion that “the outside world doesn’t know what is happening in Germany today.”
“Hitler is on the way out,” predicts an editorial in the Aberdeen World. The Mount Vernon Argus suggests that “the violence of Hitlerism is already resulting in a positive reaction, which will continue to gather strength in spite of political massacres.”
In the Bellingham Herald it is maintained that “behind the veil of a Nazi censorship a mighty cauldron is boiling; Germany is in hard straits.” On the other hand the Tacoma News argues that “despotisms ran true to form; getting into power by grandiloquent promises and demagogic appeals, dictators gradually built up power and entrench themselves; then when opposition arises they resort to the ‘iron hand’ policy and crush their opponents.”
The Yakima Republic points out that “there have been more murders committed in the name of the State in one week in Germany than in all the period of Fascist rule in Italy.”
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