Among other developments in Germany, two, the breach between the
Nationalist Stahlhelm and the Nazi Brown Army in Brunswick and the continued suppression of the Socialist Press as a whole, call particularly for mention. The Brunswick affair is symptomatic. It has been obvious from the first that a split must come sooner or later between Herr Hitler and Herr Hugenberg, each with his band of armed retainers. At Brunswick the Stahlhelm, charged with the heinous crime of admitting Marxists to its ranks (everyone who is not a Hitlerite is a Marxist now), was disarmed by the local Nazis on the instructions of the Brunswick Minister for the Interior, himself of course a Nazi, and it is not yet clear how far the efforts of Reich Ministers to patch the affair up have been successful. As for the suppression of newspapers, that goes far to explain the genuine belief of large numbers of Germans that stories of outrages have been grossly exaggerated by foreign correspondents. The fact is that the German papers which would have reported the outrages cannot be published, and the papers that are still published know better than to report them.
