MADNESS OF WAR.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 4

MADNESS OF WAR.

"A former oommander of a German submarine, Baron von Spiegel, spoke on ' The Madness of War ' to an audience in Edinburgh which was comprised mainly of British Legion men," repQrts the Scotsman. Speaking of Herr Hitler, he said: 'Let us hope by mutual understanding, which is the greatest aim of our present leader in Germany, that the terrible eatastrophe of 1914 will neyer he repeated. He has heen a private soldier, you know, and an ordinary workman. . . . He is a stubbom fellow. He knows his own mind, and he doesn't go away from it. He is trying to give Germany her position hack, and back only without wars. We are all cairn in Germany, knowing that the man who leads us won't let us go into wars. . "'It is up to all "old fighting men" to impress the younger generation. There are ways of making them listen to you,' declared the baron. ' Never tell them stories of the big war which are nice. Give them the real horrors you had to go through, and give them the terrible sides of it. Tell them 'how you felt in the mud of the trenches. Tell them what you saw, and how you felt, when you saw your best friends and comrades sutfer. and die. Tell them that wars have never heen caused hy people but only hy politics. Exterminate the poison which is still corroding the hearts of many people, and remember that hate which is instigated hy nations is artificial. and that it always hrtaks down hk« s pack o£ oards, when man meets man.' " • ••