News of the Week
HERR HITLER'S references to Germany's foreign policy are discussed in an article on a later page. The importance of his statements on the domestic situation lies mainly in his denunciation of all idea of a return to monarchy (all monarchist associations in Prussia have simultaneously been suppressed by General Goering) and his announcement of the abolition of all the Diets of the German States and the subordination of the governments of the States to the central Reich Govern- ment, represented for this purpose by its Minister of the Interior, Herr Frick. The most interesting question raised by this bold but long-expected piece of central- ization, which was given formal legislative sanction by the Reichstag within the space of one minute on Tuesday, is its bearing on the position of General. Goering, who is Minister-President of Prussia. Prussia will be a dis- tinctly less important entity under the new arrangement. It may even be broken up. And it will be directly under Herr Frick, with whom General Goering is at variance on some questions, as he is with Dr. Goebbels, the Minister' of Propaganda, on many others. But, in spite of many rumours, the position of General Goering, who is still President of the Reichstag and Minister for Air in the Reich Cabinet, does not seem seriously shaken.
