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27 The Bund. tion of Herr Hitler to the presidency, and Field-Mershal Goering to the chancellorship is not so radical a change as the Allies would desire, for it is open to very considerable doubt whether a man of the type of Herr Hitler would be content to play second fiddle to a former subordinate, and to relinquish the power which he has been enjoying for all too long. The suggested change would be as effective as a shadow compared with the very substantial fact that in reality the control of the Reich would have undergone no alteration. Herr Hitler would still be in power, for the overweening ambitions of the man would never permit him to become the figurehead which Marshal von Hindenburg was. From that point of view the suggested changes in the government of the Reich would be merely a continuation of the Hitlerian regime.
There is a possibility that the well-known moderate views of Field-Marshal Goering might commend themselves to the Allies, but those views would continue to be completely offset so long as Herr Hitler was President. Putting the argument in another manner it must be apparent that Herr Hitler, having sold the pass to Communism in exchange for fancied help from Russia which has not materialized, has betrayed his country to a nation which the campaign in Finland has shown Germany need never have dreaded, and it is clear that there will have to be a divorce mensa et thoro between Germany and the Hitler regime if opposition is to be offered to the westward sweep of Bolshevism which both the German military
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