WAR GUILT.
Xo kini? god has given the German, or any other nation, the gilt ol' seeing itself as others see it, and it was inevitable that, sooner or later, Germans should come to look upon the war as a sort of massacre of the innocents, with themselves as the heroic and high-minded innocents. It has been said that you cannot indict a nation. This is not true, for public opinion throaghout tho civilised world indicted Germany, and, having carefully eaxmined the evidence, iouml her guilty, it is true, however, that you cannot force a nation to indict itseli. If, in the bitterness of rout and remorse, a desperate cry of “ peccavi ” goes up, tho mood of penitence evaporates the moment the sting ol detent and the material evidences of disaster begin to disappear. All this notwithstanding, it is a bit early in the day for the President of the German I Republic to begin solemnly proclaiming to the World that Germany hears no responsibility for the war.—The “ Kvening News.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1927, Page 1
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170WAR GUILT. Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1927, Page 1
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