Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
BY HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS.

Author of Meet the Germans and Other
Books.
w YATCH the Germans! That is
the summary of my findings
wv after having lived in Ger
many and among the Ger
mans for more than year.
DO think that they are to be feared?
Yes, do, If you mean they are to be
feared in their role as a competitor.
There was never a more formidable
competitor than Germany is today.
Name nearly any field-outside military
and naval activity-that you like.
The things that saw in Germany
more than two years ago. already con-
ceived and being fabricated, are begin
ming to crash their way through the
air and the waters and stun the COM
mercial world today-and tomorrow.
The greater wonder is not the things
of themselves, but the will and power to
attempt and actually produce them in
so brief a period after the Germans
were uncompromisingly defeated and
every promise of supremacy and vain
ambition. together with their glittering
empire, wiped off the face Of the earth.
leaving huge debt facing the genera
tons to come.
Practically everything went by the
board-except the Germans themselves:
Intrinsically the German Is unchanged
today from what he was in 1914. In
that year Germany set out to win the
war, with what mighty effort and
energy any adult could tell you II be
chose.
heard the war talked of necessarily
in every other country except Germany.
There I usually had to mention 1t first
myself "Oh, the WARP" they would
say, with a little sigh, eyes, we lost
the war, but we are going to win the
peace!" And they believe it, Just as
they once believed they would win that
other struggle. The point Is that they
are too busy to think about the war.
The German nation is--like the
average German who has come over TO
America Woodworking breed by train
ing and disposition, inclination and am
more significant still-the Germans
work together, pull together, more than
the people of any other nation. They
are one big family. All of the prosaic
dullness and respectable happiness that
mark the bourgeois family life are CHAR
acteristic of the one big family.
Every German believes that Germany
can win whatever she undertakes, some
day will whit is their destiny! But
they are content to work and wait. II
need be, until tomorrow, or the day
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ests, they plan their libraries, they con.
struct their buildings for the good OF
the family, for their grandchildren
grandchildren They do an honest
hard days work with painstaking skill
they owe 1t to the Vaterland, to the
family.
Germany comes by her Great.I-Am
spirit naturally and honestly. It began
as early as 500, when Charlemagne
seized the supremacy in all the then
European world by claiming the heri-
tage of the ancient Romans and desig-
mating 1t the Holy Roman Empire. This
Holy Roman Empire imbedded itself In
the German psyche and has manifested
itself many times in the form OF a SUI
premacy complex which the Germans
have naively called kultur. In every
instance heretofore they have elected
to build o war machine in which they
have ridden to perdition, carrying their
hopes, ambitions and empire with them.
Germany has much to thank the all
lied nations for. For the first time IN
her more than-a thousand year exist
ence, they disarmed heri As subjects OF