What kind of regime Germany is settling down to is
still obscure. The first ebullition is passing, and the arrests of a couple of Englishmen, one of whom was arrested after half a day's detention, are not to be stressed overmuch, though if such incidents became frequent they would become serious. The fight between the moderates and the extremists inside and outside the Cabinet will have to be carried to a decision sooner or later. So, probably, will the always latent conflict between the Brown Army and the Stahlhelm. If Herr Hitler, who has given no evidence so far of any large capacity for government him- self, decides to rely on the more reasonable element in his Cabinet more or less normal life may -be resumed in Germany. As to the claim that life is, in fact, normal already it need only be asked how many Socialist papery are allowed to appear, whether the censorship on foreign news has been lifted, what freedom Jews and Socialists have to live their lives as citizens of a nominally free country, what liberty of speech and -writing exists. The tendency is clearly towards some form of • Fascist State, and the announcement that Captain Goring and Herr von Papen (the two sections of the Cabinet being nicely balanced) are to visit Rome is of some interest, the more so since their journey will no doubt bear on -foreign as well as on domestic affairs. The Chancellor must now turn to problems like unemployment, and the purge of the civil service, which means replacing trained administra- tors by largely inexperienced newcomers, will not make his task appreciably easier.
