The Nazi Congress The Nazi Conference at Nuremberg has been
an impressive affair, involving an expenditure rather sur- prising in view of Germany's impoverished state. Nothing particular has come out of it except the warning to the four million who voted No at the recent plebiscite; and an assurance to the Storm Troopers as a whole by Herr Hitler that he exonerates them completely of the crimes for which Captain Roehm and others of their leaders paid with their lives on June 80th. A reasonable speech by Herr I less, the deputy-leader of the party, on Germanys claim to colonies demands some attention. While niaintaining, naturally, the justice of the claim Herr Hess affirmed (speaking not to foreigners but to his own followers) that Germany had no intention of raising the colonial issue at present, though it was always open to the Powers concerned to do the right thing by her. Herr Hitler, it will be recalled, told Mr. Ward Price, of the Daily Mail, a month ago that he would not sacrifice a German life for any colony in the world. Altogether the Nuremberg Con- ference confirmed the impression that Herr Hitler's personal ascendancy is as great as ever—perhaps greater. The breach in the Chureh on the other hand persists, both the Bavaria and Wiirttemberg churches having openly and formally refused to recognize the fiat of Reich Bishop Muller incorporating them in the German Evan- gelical Church. Dr. Miiller's installation as Primate is now fixed for September 23rd. That date is likely to find the Church still divided.
