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    "ocrText": "- 28 -\ncolt\nOne of these Outside Powers was Russia. For a decada or more,\nthere: was some rappronhement or effort at mutual aid be tween the\ntwo International Outeasts, Germany and Russia, As is well known,\nit was a German general - not indeed thru any active instigation\nby the Weimar Government - who trained the Red Arny; and so, one\nmay suggest, latd the foundation for all subsequent consequences\nthersof\nToamed\nIn July of 1931 the Commist International saw fit to take an\nattitude of positive hostility toward the Weimer Republis, and\ndireated the faithful to work for its destrustion. This was seeming-\nly under the delusion, bred of their habitual obsession, that the\nEuropean Financial Crisis of 1931 was harbinger of an imminent\ncollapse of capitalism, and 30 all good Communists should be on\nhand to take over. It in impossible to say how much influence upon\nfollowing aventa should be ascribed to this fastor. Allegations\nseem credible that thereafter Communista enrolled in the Nazi Party,\nto help push it along, on the theory that once Nazism had overthrown\nWeimarism, Communiam would prove the ultimate beneficiary. The\nabundant atreet clashes between Mazia and Communiats do not necess-\narily disprova these allegations. On the shorter run, hitherto,\nthe theory might seem deceptive. For the longer 3 tretch, and to-\nmorrow, will this theory come into its own? What are a few years\nin the lives of nations, or of a faith?\n\"MATIONAL\nare\nARCHIVE\nThe German Republic and the Manner of ita Overthrow.\nThe overthrow of the traditional monarchy, by Socialist\npresaurs, and the proclamation of a Republic by Scheidemann, Nov.9th,\n1913, ereated a political vanuim from the viewpoint of all those\nhabitual loyalists to whom the republican idea made seant appeal.\nWhen these conservative circlas became further alienated by"
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