It is a fact that all the States in the world are moving in the direction of unification in their domestic policy, and Germany will not be out of the running in this respect.
However natural a certain measure of unifi¬ cation, especially in the domain of communications, may appear to be, it is none the less the duty of the National Socialists to bring strong opposition against such a development in the Reich to-day, given that the sole object of these measures is to cover and make possible a disastrous foreign policy. For the very reason that the Reich of to-day proposes to bring under itself the railways, postal services, finances, etc., for reasons which are not of high national policy, but in order to have in its hands the means and pledges for limitless fulfilment of obligations, we National Socialists must take every step that appears calculated to block and, if possible, prevent such a policy.
Another reason for opposing centralization of this kind is that the Jewish-democratic Reich, which has become a real curse to the German nation, is seeking to render impotent the objections raised by the States, which are not so far imbued with the spirit of the age, by crushing them to the point of becoming totally unimportant.
Our standpoint has always to be that of high national policy and must never be narrow or particularist.
This last observation is necessary lest our adherents should come to imagine that we National Socialists would think of denying that the Reich has a right to assume a higher sovereignty than that of the individual States. There neither should nor could be any question as to that right. Since for us the State in itself is but a form, whereas the essential is that which it includes, namely the nation, the people,—it is clear that every¬ thing else must be subordinated to the nation’s interests ; and, in particular, we cannot permit any single State within the nation