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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-