AFTER HITLERISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1939, Page 3

AFTER HITLERISM

CHRONIC POLITICAL IMMATURITY OF GERMANY. Since we are all agreed that we will not hate the Germans, and that one of our purposes* in fighting this war is to set them free from the Nazi tyranny, it is urgent that we should be thinking now what is to be done about them when the war is over, writes Canon Roger Lloyd. It is obviously not enough to put Hitler and his myrmidons in gaol, for that simply leaves the fundamental problem untouched. This problem is contained in the chronic political immaturity of Germany. This political ineptitude has now become a public nuisance. It has caused Germany to fight four wars in less than a hundred years, and unless something is done about it there is every reason to suppose that a fifth will follow ip another twenty years. That they should now be defeated in war is no doubt necessary for us and for the world, but defeat does not of itself constitute a political education for them. Hence it seems to be true, however little we like it, that the Peace Treaty will have* to prescribe the kind of government the Germans may have, and then the victorious Allies will have to try to help them really to make it work, and to set them free in their own household. This, of course, is hardly "Self-Deter-mination,” but it is intolerable that we should have to fight a major war in every generation, and until the Germans are capable of producing a freedom-loving Government and of making it work there will never be peace in Europe.

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