-9- and this event might be considered as a gain for the new regime, speaking strictly from the standpoint of the furtherance of its own aims. Beginning therefore with the conscription announcement the National Socialistic external gains and losses to date appear to be about as follows, the former being outlined first. In enumerating these points an attempt will be made to classify them according to the four main tenets, but it will he found that in many instances a development represents gain under more than one heading. 1 {a}. The announcement on March 17, 1935, of the creation of a popular army, thus violating treaty stipulations and Indicating that Germany was about to embark upon a foreign policy that was totally different from that which she had hitherto been forced to follow, was as important psychologically as in any other direction. Internally, it meant the reestablishment of the school of the nation wherein every sound lad took his two-year course, beginning in most instances as a rather callow, purposeless youth and returning as an erect, steady-eyed and alert man, ready to shoulder his share of the responsibility of German citizenship vis-a-vis sectionalism and the world. It meant the eventual direct employment of some 700,000 men and the indirect employment of mil- |