Show AAI A I WHO'S t VS E WS THIS liS Dy By Lemuel F Parton r veer V NEW YORK Field Mar Mar- Marshal Marl Marshal l Werner Von Blom- Blom Blomberg Blomberg berg is Germanys Germany's buried ace Astute foreign observers find cumulative evidence of this in his tightening hold on the army and in the new good good- goodwill goodwill will facade which Germany is trying to erect with his re- re reassuring reassuring assuring and now more fre- fre frequently frequently repeated speeches Other nations should not take It lightly that we stretch out our hands in conciliation says the war min min- minIster minister Ister in an address quite patently intended for tor foreign ears Dispatches hint that before long Der Fuehrer will be transport transported cd to toa toa a valhalla In a chariot charlot of fir fire there to remain as a symbol while some less febrile citizen takes care of mundane affairs That will mil willbe be the Intellectual cultured but not General von Blomberg to news from the watch watchtowers watchtowers towers over seas In the endlessly repented repeated story of the Ule praetorian aftermath of war and revolution he and his rus allies have havethe havethe the army Furthermore he is more capable of rationalizing Germany and her needs in foreign relation relation- relationshIps relationships shIps than the Gilbert and Sullivan Goering the inept von or the intellectual Ros enberg This writer has a friend a former American journalist once stationed at Berlin and now engaged in com com- commercial mercial enterprise in Europe who sees in the German junkers to which class General von Blomberg belongs the only hope Germany has for tor rehabilitation without war lie He does not wIsh his name used as he passes in fn and out of Germany In a aletter aletter letter mailed at Prague he writes in part I Hitler still has a tight hold bold on Germany but the real power po Is cas- cas casIng Ing over to the army and that means von Blomberg Strangely enough I have found Cound more brains and more realism among the bul- bul let headed officers anu anI Imperialists of the World war days than among the nazi fanatics I have talked to von Blomberg several times limes and andI I dont don't think lie be believes a word of this racial nonsense He Is an educated man maD who knows that Germany will have to tomake tomake make peace with the democratic powers to get what she needs He Heis Heis is a diligent and I 1 believe open open- minded student of history and I 1 know he reads books which an ordInary ordinary nary German citizen would have to read secretly I have an i idea ea that it if you read the papers closely losely you will see be- be before before fore long ong more and more stories about HiUer's Hitler's throat and the the necessity of his retiring to Berchtesgaden for tor rest and meditation meditation tion I 1 have no Idea that he will willbe willbe be overthrown lie will be merely enshrined while the old line indus indus- industrialists and junkers pick up where they left oft 01 and get Germany back backon backon on the track it if they can The nazis have been highly useful ul in solidify solidify- solidifying solidifying ing the country for their purposes at least but in my view the ulti- ulti ultimate mate power rests where It always has rested rested-in the army and the money bags Germany is not ready for war lIer campaign has been suc- suc successful successful only to a vary fry limited de- de degree degree gree She cannot redress her trade balance because her e cn- cn en orgies go Into armament She must either fight or bargain her way oat Olt I have found the disinclination to towar towar war and the hope of new credit and aDd trade concessions much stronger among the army groups and imperi- imperi imperialists imperialists than I have among the nazi politicians The former Cormer know more about the actualities ot of war than the latter and they have a clearer understanding of the Imperative need aced for raw materials and credit Von Blomberg Is going to do a alot lot Jot of fronting for Germany in the next next year Unless I 1 am greatly mistaken he will bear many olive branches I do not consIder him a liberal In our sense of the word he has brains enough to see that France England and the United States have what he needs and must have and he Is going after it As you know I 1 was caught In Germany when the World war started and I haVe no love for the junkers but they have lucid moments mo- mo moments ments and I am inclined to think this is one of them or Of course Ger- Ger Germany Germany many will do a lot Jot ot of growling and as she starts bargaining for loans and raw materIals but that will be merely in the hope ot of scar scar- scaring lag ing concessions out ot of the other side Anyway and this a strange choice to have to make make-I am glad to s see e power slipping into he hands of the army leaders General von lomberg Blomberg fifty eight years old tall talt ruddy and athletic has been In the army nil all his adult life liCe In the World war ho he was W a aruch ai i ruch uch decorated officer on the stall staff of ho high command of the Sev- Sev Seventh arm army lIe is an eager caIer devotee or of music and the arts regarded as the most cultured of G German army officers rte lIe made many friends amen American officers on his visit here In 1930 1 p e News Features WN Service |