GERMANY: JaJaJaJaJaJaJaJaJa: Nein!

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On Sunday the German people confirmed and ratified Adolf Hitler's seizure of the powers of Paul von Hindenburg by 38,362,760 votes of Ja to 4,294,654 votes of Nein, a clear majority of nine to one.

Even correspondents hostile to Nazidom admitted that the actual polling was fairly conducted, with scrupulous respect for secrecy of the ballot.

Eminent Germans and their efforts in the closing days of the plebiscite campaign to express how they feel about "My Leader":

Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm: Strangers cannot understand the debt of gratitude the German nation has contracted toward Adolf Hitler. ... He has inculcated by the force of his magnetism an historical evolution of the German nation.

Reichsbank President Schacht: Chancellor Hitler understands economic and financial problems through that great unpretentiousness and simplicity which always astonishes us and which conquers all theoretical objections. . . . Chancellor Hitler has rejected all theories of devaluation or inflation.

General Kurt Daleuge: The World is hostile to Germany only because it is jealous of the German people for possessing Adolf Hitler. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia (after wrecking his sports car last week and going to a hospital, as did the fraulein with him): In the higher sense of true Prussianism there is no more genuine Prussian than our Reichsfuhrer [Realmleader], Adolf Hitler [who is Austrian by birth]. . . . The Prussian idea of the state and its eternal ethics has been spread by him throughout all Germany. . . . Hindenburg was the incarnation of the highest ideals. In Hitler we see their complete fulfillment.

Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people!"

President von Hindenburg (in a document which Colonel von Hindenburg produced last week as his father's political last will and testament): My Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, and his movement have taken a decisive stride of historical importance toward a great goal of leading the German people to inner unity regardless of differences of rank and class. I know much yet remains to be done, and from the bottom of my heart I wish that the act of National Regeneration and Unification may be followed by an act of Reconciliation to embrace the whole German Fatherland.