NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE Nazi Congress at Nuremberg has
so far produced no pronouncements of note, beyond a repetition by Herr Hitler of the vague threats already directed by General Goering against the four million who had the temerity to vote No in last month's plebiscite. The revolution is complete ; there will be no further revolution for a thousand years ; there can be no resistance to the national unity. What this means remains to be discovered. But it certainly portends no relaxation of the rigour . of Nazi antagonism to any who show signs of holding opinions other than those prescribed by the party. The Jews in particular have nothing to hope. The notorious Julius .Streicher, editor of Der Stiirmer, was in the forefront at the Congress, Nuremberg being his native city, and Herr Hitler, in an address on Kultur, described Nazism as a reaction against Jewish intellectualism. His remarks on the religious .situation were evidently meant to be con- ciliatory, though there are few signs of the emergence under Reich Bishop Milner of that single united evan- gelical church which the Fiihrer depicted as the ideal. Altogether the Nuremberg Congress in its early stages has signalled no new developments in the National Socialist campaign. If it is true that Herr Hess is to be appointed Deputy-Chancellor the best among the possible candidates will have been chosen. It should be recorded, in justice, that there have been numerous releases of Socialists from concentration-camps.
