News stories and editorials in leading London newspapers indicate the belief that the Nazi regime is facing serious difficulties, while the Tory Morning Post went so far as to declare editorially that “it is evident that Hitler is no longer riding with his former élan and self-assurance. Moreover, the possibility of his fall is beginning to be openly canvassed in Germany.”
London Times headlines declared that “Nazis are divided”; and “Hitler Faces Criticism of Nazi Leaders”; while the London Daily Telegraph featured prominently a Berlin dispatch stating that Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen had returned from a visit to President von Hindenburg with assurances of support, and together with the moderates was moving to check the radical fanatics.
The Times also pointed out that Premier Goering of Prussia, who is ranked as a moderate, is being employed to handle the Nazi party conference in Franconia, where the fanatical anti-Semite Julius Streicher has reigned unchecked.
STEEL SAYS HITLER IS DUE TO GO
A picture of Hitler as a bewildered onlooker whose rule is at end and who will go almost any moment is painted in an article yesterday in the New York Post written by Johannes Steel, formerly private secretary to Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbank president, and for several years prominent as economic adviser and member of the Prussian Diet.
Steel makes startling predictions of changes impending in Germany in the near future. Some of them are:
“The Nazi dictatorship will be succeeded by a military dictatorship.
“This military dictatorship will be exercised by the Reichswehr, the police and the Steel Helmets. Its spearheads will be Herr von Papen, Lieutenant Colonel Oskar von Hindenburg, son and special A.D.C. to the President and the commanding generals of the army.
“The administration of the economic and commercial policies of the Reich will be entrusted to Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, who for the past six months has been the real ruler of Germany.
“President von Hindenburg will retire and either appoint the ex-Crown Prince or one of the grandsons of the ex-Kaiser as his successor and recommend his ‘election’ as Regent, vesting all executive power with the office of the President or Regent.
“Or Hitler may succeed Hindenburg as President, with the executive powers remaining with the office of the Chancellor and either General Goering or Colonel Franz von Papen, both monarchists, assuming the Chancellorship.”
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