Hitler's Campaign It is now evident that every conceivable expedient
is to be invoked to secure the return of the present Government in Germany at the elections on March 5th.
Fatal political affrays continue. Non-Nazi officials throughout Prussia are being "sent on leave" till after the elections. Newspapers are being suspended for varying periods, and the climax comes with the announcement that the Nationalist Stalhelm and the Nazi Brown Army are to be supplied with arms and employed as auxiliary police, particularly for service at election meetings. On that step comment is superfluous. But more than this, it has been made abundantly clear that even if Herr Hitler fails to get the 50 per cent. majority he is hoping for, he has no idea of relinquishing power. There he is, and there he remains, electors or no electors. His broadcast speech a week ago contained the declaration "If the German people should desert us that would not restrain us. We will take the course that is necessary to save jGermany from -ruin." The fact that those words were omitted from the official report may be significant, but what is mare sign. ificant is that they were spoken to millions of Germans over the micrOphone. All the signs arc that the situation is shaping up for civil war, but there is a curious underlying stability in Germany which may somehow carry her through the present crisis with only sporadic rather than general bloodshed. The real test will come when the results of the vote on March 5th are declared.
