Evening star., 1933-11-05
Continued From First Pase.)

the northeast, between us and the
Christian state Of Poland and the al
most Asiatic state of Muscovy, a real in
dependent source or spring of the op-
posite spirit It is not only something
that praises itself: it is something that
needs no praise except its own. 1t Is
futile and confusing to quarrel about
labels. like ''nationalism" or ''patrio-
tism" We are talking about different
things. Frenchman is proud Of
France. But a Prussian Is not proud
of Prussia; he is simply proud because
he is a Prussian. He is not proud. like
French Crusader, Of what his country
has done for Christendom. He is not
proud like French Revolutionist, Of
what his country has done for human
ity. He is simply proud of himself and
his sort, and would be equally proud of
their wrecking Christendom or enslav-
ing humanity.
This is the problem Of Prussia, which
Is not even the problem Of Germans,
though it is partly the problem Of the
leadership they have obeyed. But the
point of 1t is that something unbaptized
and barbaric does remain among the
nations, as it would say, unconquered;
as We should say. unconverted; and.
anyhow entirely unrepentant. That Is
the problem Of the last loud and hyster-
ical outbreak in Germany It Is not the
things they say: it is not even the
things they do; it is most certainly not
the thing they are most blamed TOR
doing.
Recognize Only Own Standard.
Many of the things tie new Germans
are saying are quite true. But they do
not say that the truths are true; they
only say they are German. Many OF
the things they do are right. But they
do not say they are right; they say they
are German. That is, they do not refer
to or recognize any standard outside
themselves. When they say they wor-
ship the German God they really mean
on the Day OF Judgment, by any god
who was not German. Now, the
Founder of Christianity and Christen
dom neglected to make himself
The world, very unwisely, allowed
this unnatural thing to grow stronger
and stronger in Europe throughout the
nineteenth century. 1t was nearly cut
short by Napoleon al Jena; it could
easily have been checked when 1t began
to steal from Poland and Denmark ana
France. It was allowed to grow so
enormously strong that it took the
strength OF four nations to lnfllct on
it {, belated and badly managed defeat.
The defeat was badly managed be,
what they we're fghting. They went
by labels again, and thought they were
fighting a nation when they were fight
Ing a notion-but notion that was
nightmare. They treated human
place like Hungary worse than an IN.
human place like Prussia. They olo
not understand (what every 1act Is
proving every day. that Austria Is not
the ally of Prussia, but the chief an
tagonist of Prussia.
Allies Declared Right.
The allies were right and did not
know it; and they did almost every
thing that was wrong, with the one eX-
cept:on of restoring Poland. The
French atheists nearly lost AlSace again
by their blind blundering old prejudice
against Christianity. The English ldl-
otically insisted on still torturing Ire
land with Black and Tans Immediately
after having won war Ior small natlon-
alities. They made every mistake they
possibly could. :,
But for all that, they were right; and
on this fifteenth anniversary OF the
armistice they are clearly and finally
proved right. There is that fountain
of poisonous pride, there is that iso-
lated idolatry of self which they set
out to destroy; and the chief point
against them is that they did not de-
stroy 1t enough. Perhaps the answer
is that it was an idea, and could have
been conquered only by another idea;
and modern politicians have no ideas.
Perhaps the pacifists are so far right,
that the final cure will be found in
conversion and not in conquest
On all this I do not here attempt to
pronounce. do net say that the
armistice will be only an armistice,