THE FUTURE OF GERMANY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2082, 27 January 1920, Page 2

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY.

WRITING of the future of Germany, .Mr Vlastimil Tusar, Prime Minister of the Czeeho-Slovak Republic, asks: —Is it probable that the Germans will now free themselves from the Prussian outlook and mode of thinking .- It is not ingrained in the original German eltaraeler. It has been grafted on. them by (heir ruling classes, and has found the most fanatical proselytes just in those portions of the people which by their deseent are not German, as for instance the Silesians, Saxons, and Prussians, who wilh few exceptions are Germanised Slavs, and have forced their non-German character upon ihe true Germans of Swabia, Franconia, and Ibe Rhine, and even on Ihe Bavarians. The policy of power, sleeped in hatred, was inevitably wrecked in a conflict with a superior. force, which must remain undiminished until the process of internal renovation be completed aintmg the Germans. Anil .even today, nl this historic turning point, the powers of darkness are again at work, openly and secretly—striving to realise, when the present spell of exhaustion has been overcome, the old schemes of world power, and to bring the add traditions and aspirations to triumph by the old methodsMif barbarism. But there are, at the same time, fresh forces in operation that make for an emancipation of soul and heart from the trammels of the pas), and (bat aim with hopeful energy at. conducting the new Germany on! of the straits of a sombre reaction lo the saving, ideals of democracy. It is on Ihe issue of this struggle of spiritual forces that Germany’s future position in the world depends.