From a source which I regard as reliable, but which
cannot specify, I have received • information which suggests that the discontent in Germany is more wide- spread, and that the discontented elements are in closer touch with one another, than is generally . supposed. Those elements are the Jews, the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches, the Stahlhelm, the peasants, the Socialists, who though compelled to toe the " Heil Hitler " line are still Socialists at heart, and a population increasingly restive . at food scarcity and high prices. These sections are not as disparate as they seem. In certain regions in particular the same individuals are peasants discontented with the prices they get for their produce, church members angry at the Church persecution and members of a Stahlhelm branch now compulsorily dissolved. The peasants, moreover, according to my informant, are tending to say " we will take our stuff to the Jews," who still somehow, in spite of everything, seem to be able to pay for what they want. How much there is in all this is hard to say. There is certainly something in it. • It means that more is simmering beneath the surface than meets the eye. And the real intentions of the Reichswchr leaders are still matter for speculation.
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