-27- with these sections is probably beyond the most radical of Nazi dreams. With the exception of the gains mentioned above, progress in Pan-Germanism has to date evolved but little more than potentialities. Nevertheless, Natlonal Socialism, which thinks in long periods of time, gives no indication of relaxing its efforts without regard to existing political boundaries. While they disclaim all instrumentality in effecting this policy, it is interesting to note in this connection the existence of the so-called Auslands-Organisation of the party which ostensibly deals only with German citizens abroad, the somewhat recent mysterious inflation of the Kultur Abteilung of the Foreign Office, and the "election" of numerous Reichstag renegade members from Sudeten, Czechoslovakia and Austria. 4. While there appears to be no prospect of early expansion on the basis of "Deutschtum", the drive for colonial expansion under the pressure of economic need of raw materials in the furtherance of their power policy, particularly in view of Germany's foreign exchange distress, has been pressed forward with more immediate urgency by Schacht and the Kolonial-Bund. Although here also no concrete success has been achieved so far, there is to be registered the growth of a section of foreign opinion willing to consider the return |