The Nazis at Nuremberg The annual congress at Nuremberg of
the National Socialist German Workers' Party,. which Herr Hitler will open next week, is one of the most significant events of the European year. More than any other political gathering it expresses the political and cultural ideals of an entire nation ; it has a more precise signi- ficance as the occasion on which the Party leaders review the past and lay down the party line for the coming year. This year Herr Hitler will have a harder task than usual, as he will hardly be able to declaim against either the Jews, or unemployment, or the League of Nations or the Diktat of Versailles—for does he not claim to have destroyed them all in three years ? There remain two problems which seem peculiarly suitable for treatment at a party congress. There is the re- ligious question, but it is not one which particularly interests Herr Hitler ; and there is the " Bolshevik menace " in which he is passionately interested. There is every indication that this will be the piece de resistance of the Congress. If it is, what Herr Hitler will say in that already hysterical atmosphere will not add to the tranquillity of Europe. But it is not the tranquillity of Europe which counts at Nuremberg. Yet there is always the possibility—for Herr Hitler is incalculable— that he has some proposal for peace or armament- limitation in store.
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