Berlin, Feb, 5.
The news of the far-reaching Changes in the government and the high army command was very quietly received by the population of the German capital, where the conviction prevails that the new concentration of power in the hands of Herr Adolf Hitler is the most natural thing in the' world and that it was only logical that he should assume the direct leadership of the army.
Informed quarters to-day again stressed the importance of this concentration, which proves that in Germany polities are the privilege exclusively of the Nátional Socialist party and that no more than any other group does the army constitute an exception to this rule. Party and army will in future continue to form the two pillars of the state. This, it is emphasized, implies that the party will not seek to gain any direct influence over the army and that the example set by Soviet Russia will not be followed. On the other hand, it is added, party and army will henceforth be more closely [united than previously in the hands of the Fuehrer and, in future. all intermediaries whose might possibly have caused have been eliminated It is further pointed out that the orage age of the thirteen generals who have replaced the ones put c the retired list is seven years les than the age of their predecessor: and that General Keitel is six years younger than Field-marshal von Blomberg.—Trans-Ocean.
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