GERMANY: WE DEMAND!

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erupted at Stuttgart. "Our standpoint is: WE TOLERATE NO OTHER PARTY!" he screamed. "We annihilate other parties! If they do not dissolve voluntarily we will dissolve them." Parties aside, the steps by which Chancellor Hitler mastered and centralized the organs of German government in his Cabinet's hands are three: 1) Statthalters or viceroys have been sent to every German state; 2) the Statthalters appoint the state premiers who pick their own state cabinets; 3) the state cabinets are responsible directly to the German Cabinet in Berlin and cannot be removed by the state legislatures which have thus been robbed of virtually all power.

To weed every vestige of Jewry out of his totalitätstaat, Chancellor Hitler last week barred from holding national, state or municipal office and also from jobs in the Reichsbank and on the State Railways ali "non-Aryans" (people with one or more Jewish grandparents). Also barred are spouses of "non-Aryans." Finally even pure Aryans are barred unless they swear as office holders "at all times unconditionally to support the National State." Churches. Like most East Prussian Junkers, President von Hindenburg takes pride in his stork, a dignified bird which returns each spring to nest at Neudeck. Last week Chancellor and President found the stork their most pleasant topic of conversation, later sat down with faces slightly grim to talk of the Hitler State's drastic efforts to obtain sway over German Protestantism. The 85-year-old President is a devout Protestant. The Chancellor, though reared a Catholic, seldom goes to church, has sev- eral times been threatened with excommunication. What he and Old Paul said remained, naturally, their secret. But the same day his guest flew back to Berlin, the President drafted with his own hand a long, anxious letter to Adolf Hitler whom he addressed as "Highly Esteemed Herr Reichskanzler." The letter recalled that Germany's 29 chief Protestant groups, the Evangelical Christians, joined together last month in a holy alliance against the "German Christians" (Hitlerite Protestants) and elected as their Reichsbischof the Rev. Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, beloved ''Bishof of the Poor" (TiME, June 12). Fortnight ago the State maneuvered Dr. von Bodelschwingh into resigning as Reichsbischof but last week Evangelical Christians passed from hand to hand a pastoral letter in which Dr. von Bodelschwingh declared: "My compulsory resignation does not cancel the charge I received from the hands of God. ... I call on the uncounted multitude of the faithful to close their ranks and not to lose courage!'

Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler's closest clerical friend, a blatant Army chaplain, the Rev. Ludwig Müllcr, assumed the Reichsbischof's prerogatives last week, ordered bugle music at service in all the big churches and locked himself in his study "to redraft The Lord's Prayer."