GERMAN STATE WORSHIP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 6

GERMAN STATE WORSHIP

GRIEVANCES OF A SPECIAL CHARACTER.

’ 1 “It is not the case that Germany , j and we think broadly alike, that Germany has certain grievances of a special, specific, and definite character, and that if you could only remove those grievances we should all be able to work together for a common purpose in a common way," said Viscount Cecil, speaking in the House of Lords. ■ “Unhappily, I do not believe that that is a true account of the situation at the present time. I believe not only this Government of Germany but all the Governments of Germany of which I have any knowledge, from the time of Frederick the Great downward have taken an entirely different view. Their view has always been that the nation’s right depends upon its strength, and that the only real test of whether a national action is justifiable or not is whether the country which carries it through is able to carry it through. They have erected the State j into a kind of semi-divine position. That is my view: it may be wrong; but if I am right you will never understand the German position unless you recognise that they believe the Slate to be a semi-divinc institution which it is wrong and wicked for any of its subjects to oppose which makes its own law for itself, and says that what the State intends to do, and makes clear that it intends to do. becomes right by that fact alone."