The Bulletin’s Day Book

The Pariser Tageblatt’s Berlin correspondent calls attention to the fact that comparatively little importance is attached abroad to the person of Hitler’s “viceroy” Hess whose role is becoming more and more important and whose influence is increasing every day.

Hitler himself spends most of the time on his tasks as Chancellor, the correspondent points out. As a result he cannot devote enough attention to the guidance of the National Socialist party. His command of facts beyond the walls of his palace is extremely limited.

And so our correspondent paints Hitler as still living in the spirit of November 12 and unable to grasp the significance of the stage settings which accompany delegations that visit him (under the skillful manipulation of his courtiers).

The misled leader does not know that complaints addressed to him go no farther than the outer hall of his office, and those who have the “courage” to attempt conveying the dire conditions by word of mouth come up against hermetically sealed doors.

In other words, they ain’t doing right by our Nell, and Adolf Hitler (alias Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde) is a virtual prisoner of the rightist capitalist villains who won’t heed the eloquent call of the Socialist angle of the program.

On the other side of this isolated palace area (sounds like a concentration camp story) we find the labor front, the brown-shirted regiments and the party. In the latter it is said, so the correspondent’s touching tale runs, that Hitler knows not what is actually happening. Everything is concealed from him.

Hess, though, knows all, hears all, has his finger on the pulse of everything. Calmly, quietly he holds consultations with influential Nazis, taking care not to create stir around his name or person. With Hitler totally unaware (what refreshing ignorance!), Hess converses with the leader of the labor front, with commanders of storm troopers.

Thus, according to our scribe, Hess is gradually emerging as the organizer of a new front-against Hitler’s capitalist environment.

The day will come when Hitler will have to make his choice. Then he will see light through his “viceroy.” Hess is not too sure of his allies. He does not appear to be trusting implicitly in Roehm who, some feel, is even more ambitious and conceited than Goering himself.

If, as has been rumored of late, Roehm is really being groomed for the post of the Minister of War, the new front will acquire a pretty big hole. In any event, this Hitler-less front is probably a reality at that.

As to the contention that it seeks to enforce a complete Nazi program, just imagine what the whole program will be like, if what Germany is enjoying now is only a part of it.

L. Z.