"He feels that most high-placed Nazis are refusing to face facts vis-a-vis their economic plight. By doing so, they accelerate the tendency toward greater adventures, less predictability, less stability in general. The cycle of manic enthusiasm, then fear, then Partei solutions of a desperate type--well, the point he got across was that all this tends to bring the most irresponsible and reckless aspirants to the top." Mr. Tagomi nodded. "So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash."