A Nazi Germany Nazification—of the legal and medical professions, of
sport, of the Church, of the Press, of schools and universities, of libraries, of every other department of life —in Germany proceeds apace, and nothing like open opposition from outside the ruling coalition survives. But within the ruling coalition there are visible signs of fissure. The Nazis and the Nationalists are still uneasy allies. Friction between the Nazi Brown Army and the Nationalist Stahlhelm recurs in various regions and negotiations between Herr Hitler and Dr. Seldte, head of the Stahlhelm, and at the same time Herr Hitler's Minister of Labour, have not yet smoothed the trouble out. Colonel Diisterberg, second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, has been relieved of his command because one of his grandfathers was a Jew. And now Herr Hugenberg, the Nationalist leader, finds difficulty in getting confirma- tion of his appointment as Minister of Labour and Agricul- ture in Prussia. (He is already Minister of Economics and Agriculture in the Reich.) But Herr Hitler can by this time afford to dispense with the Nationalists as he has dispensed with every other party, for all the evidence is that he has so completely acquired control of the administrative machine throughout Germany that oppo- sition from any quarter can be crushed at sight. For the present National Socialism is supreme. A new and drastic measure against the Jews, the limitation of Jewish entries into secondary schools and universities to 1.5 per cent. of the total entries, is announced.
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