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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 4

In October last Herr Hitler announced his desire “to convince foreign opinion of his peaceful intentions in me event of his. party’s attaining power.” A little before this he reviewed 80,000 Nazis, who “goose stepped” past their commander and Prince August, one of the ex-Kaiser’s sons. On this occasion he dedictated 24 new standards for his “storm troops” and spoke most confidently of “our definite ascent to power.” Hitler’s latest announcement in regard to reparations has therefore aroused resentment and alarm in •France, where Hitlerism is taken very neriously. And considering the close association that the Nazis maintain with the Imperialists and militarists, it is not strange that they are usually identified with, the extreme reactionaries and credited with a determination to use force to attain their ends. Yet Hitler maintains that the use or force is not an article of his faith or an essential part of his programme. In Wyndham Lewis’ “Hitler,” the most sympathetic account of the Nazi movement that has yet appeared in English. there is an illuminating chapter entitled “Aclolf Hitler, a Man of Peace”; and I have no doubt, says a northern writer, that theoretically this is . a truthful description of him. He is a strange idealist, this Austrian house-painter who has transformed hiniisclf into the embodiment of German nationalism, and bis views form a- eurjous and incoherent creed. He is an extreme racialist, believing above all things in the German people, despising all national types but the Nordic, and hating above all other things and neoples the Jew and the Capitalist. No one ran question his enthusiasm or, his sincerity, and there is no doubt that by appealing direotly to the "ouiig generation that has grown u n since the Great War—for like Mazzini his mission ’> “to the young” —he has established a remarkably stitong hold upon the imagination of the German people. He dreams of a new Germany emancipated from

bondage either to domestic capitalists or foreign foes, purified of all alien racial taint, rejuvenated, and inspired to set forth upon the great task of leading the world toward a higher level of free, enlightened, and happy existence. There is nothing in this "that necessarily suggests a violent or destructive revolution, but Hitler is so fond of military organisation and military alliances, and so freely does he use the language of militarism in liisi exhortations and proclamations of faith, that if the rest of the world to-day regards him mostly as a-'**Ger-man version of Mussolini be has only himself to blame.