The Nuremberg Speeches The Nazi Party Conference at Nuremberg produced
ebullience, but no explosions. General Goering expatiated on the virtues of the Four Year Plan, which Dr. Schacht, the Minister for Economic Affairs, views with such misgiving that it seems likely to cause his resignation. Herr Hitler made cordial references to France, declared that Germany was now a factor for peace because she wanted to attack no one and no .3ne would now dare to attack her, and in his final and principal speech delivered another onslaught, in language which Herr Streicher could hardly have bettered, on Jews and Bolshevists everywhere, and in Spain in particular. The Chancellor's references to the simple innocence of Britain and France, who do not realise what the Bolshevist peril is, suggest a conclusion which has apparently not occurred to him, that if Britain and France do not fear Communism it is because their methods of dealing with it are a good deal more successful than his own. The speech culminated in the claim, which must be emphatically rejected, that Germany and Italy are justified in laying a ban on " Bolshevism " wherever they choose in Europe. If on Bolshevism why not on democracy, which is a much more dangerous rival to Fascism because it has more to offer ? Germany is fully entitled to maintain what regime she chooses within her own frontiers, but only on condition that she allows other countries the same freedom within theirs. The comparative calm of Nuremberg does not exclude the possibility of thunders during the Hitler-Mussolini talks next week.
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