Show Imperial Impei ial Hop Hopes s May Linger But Bui Where iNhere Will Nazis N Flee I l i f Spirit May Be Nurtured in Foreign Haven to Break Forth Ag Again ain Few Goun Countries tri es i l p Willing to Offer Foe Refuge 1 f t r By BAUKHAGE BAUI News NeiLs Analyst and Commentator Service Union Trust Building Washington D. D C. C Returning to the capital alter a n areck week reck in the wilds while Hitler's mad dream of empire was melting mellIng it is hard to adjust the car ear caressed bythe by bythe bythe the whisper of mountain brooks and sighs of the wind in the pines to the staccato click of the news Natures Nature's sounds are Ire sounds organ-sounds rising falling not sharp and metallic metal metal- lic even tic even the crack of the lightning me merges into its jato of thunder Today roday as I pulled the first sheet of text from the thc teletype with its continuously continuously continuously con con- exciting recital of the end of Df an It it occurred to me rae that epochs like the manifestations of nature have no sudden ends they may seem to disappear like a river which plunges under unGer ground But they are bound to appear again Today we have evidence that the two forces which have sprung from two opposing elements in Germany as DS I reported in an earlier column ere are attempting like the lost rivers to lo seek a course below the surface The Die Prussian military caste purged as BS it has been and soon doubtless to lo be stripped of its one source of Income the great estates of East nd and West Prussia will surely sureh try to continue its existence in refugee colonies This is not a new phe phe- The followers of dethroned dethroned dethroned de de- de- de kings have done this in the past Where and how will this group seek to keep alive the will to achieve such a goal Time is not the essence of what they believe to be their contract with destiny They can wait generations centuries All AU they need is space space in which undisturbed undisturbed undisturbed un un- un- un disturbed they can propagate their kind and their faith And as the th thinned ed ranks of tf German German German Ger Ger- man only Conly a tiny percentage percentage percentage per per- of the e German people desperately desperately des des- desperately plan their future an a even more desperate group at the other end of the social spectrum plans pians theirs The Nazis have demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- that it was not Germany as ass s tI nation or Germans as a people in whom they were interested but both as BS a means to the creation of a great brutal sweeping movement movement- followers of an idol and an ideology The fanatical Nazi spirit will try to hide and live and rise again Where in all the world can these two movements find asylum Not in Germanys Germany's neighbor states where hatreds have been sown son which will take a century to cure It is highly probable that the republican elements elements ele ele- dc- dc ments in Spain will gain the ascendancy ascendancy ascendancy ascend ascend- ancy and give short shrift to the former friends of Franco Sweden surely having maintained neutrality neutrality neutrality neu neu- in this war is too wise to harbor barbor either grou group Turkey per per- haps Imps Where else might a German go so soend and end face least resentment n It is natural to- to answer with the name of the he nation which was least willing willingto to join in a solid Axis anti combine Argentina Foreign Spirits Grow In Latin Instability It is a mystery to me said a aman aman aman man who has spent years in Latin America how Vargas president of Brazil Brazill or anyone else could keep the elements in the south satisfied as long as he has Of course it has been done he went on the nation has been held together by a dictatorship and because because because be be- cause the money has been pouring In from the United States When it is the ambition of most Brazilians to get a government job and 60 per cent at a time manage to do it its it's natural you have to change governments governments' pretty often to give the other 40 per cent a chance Of course this cynical comment must be taken with a grain of Bait alt But there is some truth in the allegation One of the things which kept the Third Republic of France together as long as it was was the method of giving out government jobs which worked for stability and continuity The person who had the right to sell a certain amount of tobacco was not permitted to use a shop or restaurant which he himself rah in which to sell it So he had to give a acut acut acut cut to the owner cafe-owner where the goods were sold The owner cafe-owner could not employ any anyone one of his own family to handle the sales there were other complicated regulations regu regu- lations the result of which was that tim t three or four families were benefit benefit- ting by the single government li ii li- li cense Of course it is not the quality of 0 instability of Latin-American Latin governments governments gov gov- in itself which disrupts our statesmen but the fact that such instability makes foreign influence easier to achieve We know what a foothold Germany had obtained in South America and maps have been discovered showing the territory Hitler expected to control which placed all of South America up to and into southern Brazil under German German German Ger Ger- man domination The power of influence in influence influence in- in fluence on the other South American countries was strikingly revealed inthe inthe in inthe the recent move which caused the resignation of Foreign Minister Aranha of Brazil as a protest against his United pro-United States policy Enemy Broadcasters Without a Country The time grows shorter until Lord Mr Kaltenbach Mr Best Miss Drexel et al nl take their places at the microphones of the Berlin radio to spread their futile propaganda over the ether for the thelast thelast thelast last time Here are three reminiscences When I was broadcasting from Berlin for the NBC at the beginning of the war in 1939 there was only one of the staff stat of the German broadcasting station there who was provocatively Nazi He was a tall handsome blond much given to riding riding riding rid rid- ing boots and golf goll clubs He had studied in England and his English seemed perfect to me He was an announcer who read the news I beamed on England Then came the British declaration of war against Germany There was naturally considerable excitement in inthe inthe inthe the studio It was not until I was going home that I missed my blond friend No one seemed to know where he was Then I heard the story It seemed that when war was declared all enemy aliens were interned The Gestapo much to the surprise of his colleagues picked up my ray blond anglophobe explaining they had known all along that he was a British British British Brit Brit- ish agent Later he was brought back and forced to continue reading news bulletins bulletins bulletins bul bul- in English Number two in my gallery I 1 never saw he is the man Best who mouths Nazi platitudes in a southern southern south south- em ern accent But I understand the accent accent accent ac ac- ac- ac cent is all that is left of ot the man- man he is or is-or or was an American newspaperman newspaperman newspaperman perman who got into one of those European social impasses A woman woman wom worn an of course and an older and more determined one He finally found his escape in drugs That was an easy case for forthe the Nazis Now we come to exhibit number three Constance Drexel That name will be remembered by magazine and newspaper readers readers readers read read- ers of some two decades ago It is a pseudonym chosen because I imagine her real one would not have sounded as pleasant in Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia where she worked on a newspaper She had interviewed the Queen of Spain and other notables in her day that dates her but had started going going going go go- ing to seed when she called on me hoping for an assignment from the syndicate for which I worked in the middle She still had some of her youthful good looks and knew how to make the most of them The next time I ran across her was in the station in Berlin shortly after the war started I was returning from Switzerland and my office had told me Constance Constance Constance Con Con- stance Drexel would appear on one of my periods and I was to edit her script She showed it to me meas as as we rode to my hotel I read it It was innocuous She looked loed no younger but better fed Said she was in Europe doing some syndicate articles She made madea a broadcast which I did not hear and I never saw her again never again never heard of her until I had returned to America and caught a broadcast of hers over the from Bert BerI Ber Ber- t I lEn lin extolling the virtues of Nazi Nazi- I dom dorn |