Scientist on Dictators

Famed for his ''introvert'' and "extravert" classifications, Switzerland's great Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung last week branched out into psychopolitical analysis, announced in London: "I have just come from America, where I saw Roosevelt. Make no mistake, he is a force--a man of superior and impenetrable mind, but perfectly ruthless, a highly versatile mind which you cannot foresee. He has the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely !

"There are two kinds of dictators--the chieftain type and the medicine man type. Hitler is the latter. He is a medium. German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the gods as of old.

"I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me, almost with tears in his eyes: 'We have no dreams any more since the British are in the country.' When I asked him why, he answered: 'The District Commissioner knows everything.'

"Mussolini, Stalin and Roosevelt rule like that--they know everything--but in Germany they still have 'dreams.' You remember the story of how, when Hitler was being pressed by other Powers not to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations, he shut himself away for three days, and then simply said, without explanation: 'Germany must withdraw'! That is rule by revelation. . . .

"After the dictators? Oligarchy in some form. A decent oligarchy--call it aristocracy if you like--is the most ideal form of government. It depends on the quality of a nation whether they evolve a decent oligarchy or not. I am not sure that Russia will, but Germany and Italy have a chance. Without the aristocratic ideal there is no stability. You in England owe it to your 'gentleman' that you possess the world."

Dr. Jung added that in the cycle by which a democratic state gives way to a Dictator, who in turn yields to an Oligarchy, which finally starts the process all over again by getting around to Democracy, the crisis comes when "the people look to their state to give them more wages, higher standards of living. . . . And so the time comes when the state must make fake money. First it is called 'inflation.' Then, because that is unpopular, 'devaluation.' Now they are calling it 'dilution.' But it is all the same thing --fake money. Thus you have insecurity. Savings become illusory. Since nature is aristocratic, the valuable part of the population is reduced to the level of misery.

"Russia is the typical oligarchy, as it always was. The Communist Party is a privileged ruling caste. They are working towards the same thing in Germany. The S. S. men are being transformed into a caste of knights ruling 60 million natives. The dictatorships of Germany, Russia and Italy may not be the best form of government, but they are the only possible form of government at the moment."

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