Herr Hugenberg in Eclipse The split between the Nazis and
the Nationalists N, inevitable from the first. The only question was how and when it would come. As to how it would end there \ as never any question at all. The Nationalists, like every one else, will go to the wall and if men like Herr von Pape!), Herr Hugenberg and Dr. Seldte resign from the Cabinet they will make their exit unmourned. Herr Hitler and the Nazi Party are in command of the German State and no other party or combination of parties has any hope of standing against them at present—or, so far as can be seen, for long to come. It may well be true that Com- munists and other "Marxists" of less violent hues have enrolled themselves in the Nationalist Stahlhelm. It would be a measure of obvious self-preservation. If the Stahlhelm is disbanded, as seems likely, those of its members whose 'Aryanism is beyond suspicion will no doubt transfer mechanically to the Brown Army. Mean- -while the position of the Nationalist leader, Herr Hugen- berg, will hardly be strengthened by the memorandum he laid before the Economic Conference, had published simultaneously in Berlin, and. then' withdrew. It seems unlikely that much more will be heard of Herr Hugenberg.
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