Herr Hugenberg's Exit The elimination of Herr Hugenberg had been
inevitable from the first. Whatever may be said of Herr Hitler and the advisers who frame his plans, there can be nothing but admiration for the unfaltering strategy whereby the present Chancellor first of all systematically under. mined the position of all personal opponents—Briining, von Schleicher, von Papen—and then having gained office himself proceeded no less methodically to suppress all opposition bodies—Communists, Socialists, Bavarian People's Party, and now the Nationalists—one by one. The Nationalists were the last unit to survive, except the Centre, and they were always doomed. It is true they are "absorbed," not suppressed, but the union between National Socialists who are very definitely Socialist and the representatives of big business and the big estates can never be peculiarly harmonious. The other piece of news from Berlin—the alleged raid by unknown aeroplanes which no one outside official circles descried, and which dropped sheaves of leaflets which none but official eyes have seen,—must be subjected to that same suspense of judgement as the still unsolved mystery of the firing of the Reichstag. But it is clear that on the strength of it Germany means to press for police aeroplanes if not for actual military machines.
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