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said: "We shall b¾nish want. We shall banish fear. The essence ofNational Socialism is human welfare. There must be cheap Volkswagenfor workers to ride in, broad Reich Autobahns for theVolkswagen. National Socialism is the Revolution of the CommonMan. Rooted in a fuller life for every German from childhood to oldage, National Socialism means a new day of abundance at home anda Better World Order abroad." 12Of course they had no key to the secret of abundance save theold, well-rusted keys which all their predecessors had used—spendingof borrowed money by the government, plunging it hopelesslyinto debt, the planned autarchial society in which private businessand labor would fall under the iron hand of the bureaucratic state,vast armies to consume the unusable labor of the young, and a hugearmaments industry to provide work for the others. It was all afraud—a fraud these men could perpetrate a bit better than theirrepublican and parliamentarian predecessors because with theirdictatorship they could silence the grumbler at taxes and regimentation.It was a fraud, alas, to the soundness of which some of themost eminent and respected persons in Germany had testified in thebest manner of their polysyllabic profundity.Of course the element of fascism that makes it odious to themore sober observers in this country is its hatred of democracy.But there are whole legions of writers and pundits in Americaceaselessly vocal in their devotion to democracy who neverthelessare committed to the theory of the autarchial planned state andthe principle of the consumptive economy effected by nationaldebt, who like at least a little militarism and do not run away froma little righteous imperialism, but who balk at the war on democracywhich the fascists, with more consistency than themselves, carryon. But after all neither Hitler nor Mussolini invented the theory ofthe circulating elite, the hierarchial government, and the absoluteleader which are essential to fascism. A whole series of writers overseveral generations—German as well as British and French—hadgiven full rein to their scorn of democracy. I do not refer merely tomen like Nietzsche and Spengler and Keyserling, the latter of whom^Quoted in Men in Motion, by Henry J. Taylor, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York,i?43·154