Whatever may be thought of Nazi methods—and nothing has happened
to modify by an iota the opinions that have consistently been expressed on that in these columns—the victory of Herr. Hitler must be accepted as a fact. How long his half-constitutional, half- revolutionary, domination will continue is an open question. But it exists at present and we have to deal with it. For that reason, if no other, it must be understood. On a later page a German writer whose competence and whose Liberalism are both beyond challenge presents what he conceives to be the better sides of Hitlerism, while attempting no hollow apologies for the worst. His article is marked both by candour and by courage, qualities exhibited no less conspicuously by the journal he has served so long in many capacities the Frnfikfurter Zeitung, which has escaped the fate of other Liberal organs like the Berliner Tageblatt, and neither capitulated to the NaZis nor been forcibly taken over by them. But when all is said that can be said of the latent idealism animating the Nazi movement, when all allowance is made for the conditions against which it is a reaction, it still remains true that a move- ment that depends for its survival on the suppression of all freedom of speech and writing, and the inculcation of a patriotism aggressive and provocative • in- every outward manifestation, a movement responsible for a racial persecution, relentlesd in its inhumanity, thrusts Germany temporarily out of the company of the democratic and progressive nations of Europe. * * *
