(New York World-Telegram.)
Just what purpose Herr Hitler hopes to serve
by his fake election is not clear. Certainly no one
in Germany thinks it was a free election. And
the Nazi dictator has only to read the foreign
press to discover that the rest of the world is not
deceived by his bayonet ballots.
The remarkable thing is not that ninety per cent
of those allowed to vote did so but that almost
ten per cent had the great courage to stay away
from the goose-step polls. The aged Duke Albrecht, i
a World War General, was expelled from the Steel
Helmet organization and sent to jail for failure to
vote. What will happen to less famous and power
ful persons?
Three factory directors were imprisoned in one
of the terrorist concentration camps for the ‘'crime”
of walking away from a loud speaker while the
voice of Hitler was issuing therefrom.
Copsidering that most of Hitler’s opponents had
either been murdered, imprisoned, or disqualified,
the fact that more than 3,000.000 citizen^ dared to
vote against the dictatorship is astounding.
Until Hitler and his terrorists conquered Ger
many the world was rapidly coming to support that
nation’s just demands for revision of the unfair
peace treaty of Versailles and for equality of dis
armament. Under that public pressure Prance and
Great Britain were being driven to lift the German
yoke.
But Hitler has changed all of that. Germany
'today has fewer friends than at any time since
(the Kaiser’s day. Judged by results, Hitler is Ger
many's worst enemy because he has turned the
world against her.
Unfortunately, the havoc does not stop there.
