GERMANY’S “SICK MIND.”

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 14 September 1916, Page 5

GERMANY’S “SICK MIND.”

The Swiss papers publish an interesting article by a Danish journalist, who has spent several months in Germany, giving his impressions of what he saw- and heard there. “Germany today,' ’ he says, “offers the spectacle of a sick mindin a vigorous body. The physical energy remains formidable, soldiers and officers retain their aggressive spirit aud count on victory, and the population submits heroically to the economic hardships inflicted upon them. Nevertheless, the spirit of the nation is troubled; everyone has doubts. This state of mind results, above all, from the obvious certainty, which every day becomes more evident, that Germany and her Allies cannot impose the conditions of peace. Defeat, or. even an uncertain decision will aggravate w ; hat is already a black outlook for the country, the industries of which will be ruined, commerce paralysed the mercantile marine boycotted, finances exhausted. Above all, Germany feels The iscreaso of the universal hatred regarding w-hicll she has lostthe disdain, real or affected, shown by her at the beginning of .the wav.”