THE FUTURE OF GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3400, 3 February 1920, Page 7

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY .

Writing of the future -if Ge=.~ln-.uly Mr Vlastimil Tusar, Prime Minister of the Czocho-Slovak Republic, -asks: Is it probable that the 'a}el':lialls wiil now free themselves from the Prussian outlook and mode of tliinkiiig? It is not ingrained in the original German charactei-. It has been grafted on them by their ruling classes and has found the most fan-Ni-321,1 proselytes just in those portions of the people which by their descent are not Germans, as for instance the Silosians, Saxons and Prussians, who, zvith few exceptions, are Germauised Sl-avs.

and have forced their non-Gm-rnull character upon the true Gernxans of Swabia. Franconia, and the Hh‘..lle, and even on the Bavarians_ The policy of power, ste’el’)e‘B. in hatred, was inevitably wrecked in a conflict ‘.\'if.h a superior force, whicfi mu’s’c' remain undiminished until the process of internal renovation be completed ammlg the Germans. And even t'o«day, at this historic turning point, the powers

of darkness are again at work, aperily and secretl}'~—striving to realise, when the present. spell of exliuustioii has been ovei-cofiie, the old schemes of world-power, and to bring the old traditions and aspirations to triumpli by the old methods of: b2ll'l):3,T_i.‘~'.lll. But there are. at the same time, fresh forces in operation that make for an emancipation of soul anfi heart from the trammels of the past. and that aim with hopeful energy at conducting the new Germany out of the straits of :1 sombre reaction to tl~.eN saving ideals of deniocracy‘. It is onl the issue of this struggle of scpi;-itizali forces that Gel'nlany’s future p~:>s7tion| in the world depends. I