Evening star., 1933-10-29

Just returned. from a stay in Germany.
BY A. J. CUMMINGS.
LONDON, October % (NANA)-
Germany is sincere in her desire for a
period of peace.
But the Nazi Reich contemplates with
untroub.ed mien the prospect of an
other world war; for this war she will
prepare, for this war she will be ready.
There is no doubt OF this in any Nazi
mind. In this connection there is a
book all Germany is reading. The title
is Years of Decision" by Oswald
Spengler, an able philcsophic historian
ard a writer Of tremendous power,
whose earlier work. The Decline Of
Western Civilization, made him famous
This new book is now to be seen on
every bookstall and in every bookshop
In every town in Germany. 1t Is the
only piece Of literature critical OF Nazi-
ism which the Nazis have yet per-
mitted to appear. The Nals love 1t
and Hitler himself is said to have
learned many passages by heart. 1t
would not be wasted effort if all foreign
secretaries were to commit some ex-
tracts to memory.
Eook Is Call to Arms
1t is a call to action, call to arms,
call to conquest.
1t is the credo of aggressive. mill
tant nationalism embodied in the Nazi
State.
Spengler caustically condemns what
he calls the "hurrah' mood of the
NaZi rulers. The national revolution of
1888, he says, was Prussian through and
through. 1t aroused the dreamers and
prepared the way. But 1t was a too
easy triumph. and it was only be-
ginning.
Woe be to those who confuse mobi-
lization with victory"
The great drama of world politics
is not at an end. Big moves are being
made. Every vital nation Is faced with
the alternative of greatness or destruc-
ton. The whole Western World is to
be involved in the coming struggle"
No Time for Sentiment.
Let Germany, he says. be sparing of
day when she has emerged in triumph
from that conflict.
This is no time he goes on. for SEN
timentalists. Germany, young and val
liant and strong. can. if she will, sur
vive many nations that are too old and
stiff to defend themselves.
The paciflSt resolution passed by the
undergraduates of England's greatest
university is, says Spengler, one of
many plain indications that England is
in process of decay and disintegration.
Her younger generation, he says. has
gone soft. The English are occupying
themselves foolishly with bolshevik
problems. They are making a sport of
eroticism and of sport a profession"
America. too. has failed to withstand
her own crisis. She has no stamina
and has falsified her destiny.
"Prussian Spirit" Needed.
ne declares, will prevail In the Strug-
gle that looms ahead. 1t is a struggle
IN which dishonest optimism will have
nounces that prosperity is on the way
as soon as few stocks rise a point or
two or hundred men are re-empIoyed
and that an international understand =
ing has been reached as soon as the
League of Nations - that system of
Summer holiday makers basking on the
shores of Lake Geneva"-passes a reso-
luton
We are living, Spengler continues, in
vigorous times. The World War was
only the first rumblings of the storm
which, heavy with fate, is to break over
this century.
The world is being remodeled. Who
realizes that it is a piece of luck to be
living in this stirring moment?
There are peoples who are small and
endure ie
ruled by fools and towards.
But the cowardly security of the last
century is at an end.
No more white bolshevism
Strength Important.
No more idle happiness and empty
utopias
Man is a beast of prey
The race is to the swift and the
battle to the strong.
Let the German women breed warrior
men and take pleasure in breeding
them.
1t is of much greater consequence
that the nation should be racially
strong than that it should be racially
pure.
We are perhaps on the very eve of
the second World War. Let Germany,
therefore, prepare and be ready
have selected and summarized these
characteristic extracts from the most
striking and popular piece of literature
published under the present regime, be-
cause they unmistakably reflect and ex-
press the spirit of Nazi Germany.
If you desire to know what millions
Of Germans are saying and thinking
today you cannot ignore the words of
Oswald Spengle-.
Copyright. 1893. bv the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl