The split in the ranks of the National Socialist Party has become serious. The opponents of the party’s leader, Adolf Hitler, have organized the National Revolutionary party, headed by Count Ernest Reventlow, formerly the National Socialist spokesman in the Reichstag. Count Reventlow has announced his intention of fighting Hitler because the latter is “serving capitalism, possessing a palace and a luxurious automobile.”
The Hitlerite organ, the “Voelkische Beobachter,” charged that the new party is subsidized by Hitler’s opponent, Jacob Goldschmidt, one of the best known German-Jewish economists and financiers. The revolting group in its organ terms this allegation “a silly lie,” saying “we can open our books for inspection.”
In the meantime the Prussian government has issued an official communique forbidding civil employes, Prussian government employes and members of the police force from holding membership in either the National Socialist party or in the Communist party.
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