At the Fuehrer’s personal order, Der Reichswart, a weekly anti-Semitic publication issued by Count Reventlow, has been banned here for an indefinite period.
Count Reventlow is a longstanding supporter of Herr Hitler and was a National-Socialist Deputy in the Reichstag when the party only had twelve seats. He is a man of independent character and outspoken opinions, who is ### respecter of persons.
NEVER HELD OFFICE
This may account for the fact that he has never been given office under National Socialism. He left the Imperial Navy in 1900 because he had married a French woman, and a book attacking the sycophants around the former Kaiser, published in 1907, caused him to be brought before a court of honor, which deprived him of the right to wear uniform. During the war he attacked Von Tirpitz for tardiness in using submarines, and warmly advocated annexations on a large scale. He was always, in fact, a stormy petrel.
His newspaper has been forbidden on account of an article published under the heading, “We Are Quite Alone.” This article was signed by one Heinz-Ewald Bluhm, and openly expressed dissatisfaction with current economic policy and the failure to put Socialism into practice.
VISIONS DEFEAT
Declaring that “the dark clouds of defeat are hanging over {SPAN}###{/SPAN} said that a last and apparently insuperable obstacle lay before the old guard of National Socialism— capitalism. It spoke bitterly of “the long dividend lists published in the daily Press of the bourgeoisie,” and expressed distrust of certain “companions on our way,” who had only come to National Socialism in its hours of triumph, and were betraying its principles. These allusions were clearly to the eminent representative of big banking who is now economic dictator (under Herr Hitler) of Germany—Dr. Schacht.
The official announcement of the ban says contemptuously that the author of the article is “full 20 years old.” The proudest boast of National Socialism in pre-office days was that it was “the party of youth.”
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