Assimilation—or Elimination ?
It is difficult to withhold admiration for the sentiments enunciated by Dr. Frick, the German Minister of the Interior, on Saturday regarding the treatment of racial minorities by European States. As he looked round (too distant a field of vision was selected for it to include German soil) he found the efforts to assimilate and denationalise minorities sharper, and, above all, more systematic than ever before. German minorities must be preserved and assisted in every country where they existed—but only, of course, Nazi minorities. " Renegades " (e.g., Social Democrats) could not be a bridge to understanding between States and civilisations. With Germany's methods with racial minorities in the past four years as model the Governments of States containing such minorities are doubly fortunate, for they have only to reconcile Dr. Frick's words with Herr Streicher's actions to find a complete guide to their own policy. Herr Henlein, the leader of the Sudetendeutsch minority in Czechoslovakia, speaking on the same occasion, laid down the sound doctrine that minorities must combine loyalty to " their own nation " with loyalty to the States in which they lived. On that basis the minority problems could be solved. It will be a hopeful sign if Herr Hitler endorses the doctrine at Nuremberg next month when the Party Congress discusses German unity.
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