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of the Nazi government. He fears and expects that this cleavage will be the 
most important factor in German life for at least two generations to
come.
 
 
 In contrast to the favorable, if grudging and seriously qualified
estimate of the results of the first years of the new government, there was
substantial agreement in disapproval of the present situation. Accordingly,
it seems safe to say that in a certain class or set of people in Germany a 
very large majority are now thoroughly hostile to the government. This
raises the question of the attitude of the various classes of people through
the country, and I was told much about this by many different people, mostly,I think, well informed. Here are some of the remarks. The clergy, both Catholic and Protestant, except a small minority who act as spies on their colleagues and who are quite generally regarded as beyond the pale of
common decency, are opposed to the government. The great majority of devout 
Catholics and Protestants agree with and pretty generally follow their
priests or pastors. One man whose wish it would be to believe the number
as large as possible, but who seemed to me exceptionally honest, told me 
that this accounts for 20 per cent of the total population of Germany, say
10 per cent Catholic, 10 per cent Protestant, who are opposed to the
government because of their religion.
 
 
 The peasants, I was told, should be divided into two classes,
peasant proprietors and agricultural laborers. It is said that the peasant
proprietors are now in large majority hostile to the government. The reason
given is that the minute regulations imposed upon them, the new laws about
inheritance, the conditions under which mortgages may be obtained, and the