Foreign News: Upswing Unprecedented

Ever since the German people got exactly what they wanted for a Chancellor exactly two years ago last week, the Fatherland has been expectant that next week or the week after beloved Adolf Hitler would arise and state his domestic program, his foreign policy or his religious views with clear precision. On the great Second Anniversary last week hopes were especially high. Full text of Der Reichsführer's speech, not broadcast because Orator Hitler was said to be "too hoarse", but printed by every newsorgan in the Fatherland so that no German should miss a single precious word:

"Today and in this hour two years ago, after an upswing unprecedented even in the history of parliamentarily governed States, National Socialism attained power and with it responsibility in the German Reich.

"Just as the outbreak of the World War represents an historic turning point not only in the memory of living witnesses but also for coming generations, so to no less a degree does this beginning of the government of National Socialism represent a turning point for our German people.

"The National Socialist regime has lifted up a nation that had wasted away in dull desperation and has filled it with strong faith and confidence in the innate values and creative powers of its own life.

"And this is National Socialism's greatest and most decisive merit: the transformation of external symbols has been followed by the transformation of the people's soul. In joyous self-discipline uncounted millions have placed themselves in the service of the new idea. Beside the fanatical fighters of our revolutionary National Socialist party have stepped the soldiers of the tradition-richest army.

"The mobilization of human energies took place on a scale hitherto scarcely conceived. From the swarming millions of our youth to the gigantic community of workers of the fist and brow, active in one front, we see the witnesses of National Socialistic organizational art and organizational work.

"In this an old world was not destroyed to build up a new one later; rather the newly-arriving world has overcome the old. At no moment of our National Socialist revolution did there arise a vacuum. At no stage of our advance and our battles was there chaos. The least sanguinary revolution of world history was yet one of its most decisive!

"It was therefore in the long run futile to attempt to deny or falsify the character of our National Socialist revolution through an international campaign of vilification and lies. Hundreds of thousands of men and women from all nations who had an opportunity during the last two years of judging Germany from what their own eyes saw became witnesses of the greatness and discipline of the National Socialist uprising. And they continue to be the best witnesses of our reconstruction work.

"For if on Jan. 30, 1933, I demanded from the German people four years' time for the execution of the first labor program, then two-thirds of this promise has already been fulfilled during the first half of this period! No democratic government in the world can therefore submit with greater confidence to the people's vote than Germany's National Socialist government.