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forces have been broken down! There
fore, the clay proves more inert and
docile in the hands of the potter.
It might have been thought that
learning and experimental science, at
least, soldly intrenched in the uni
versities, would have refused to be
detected from their normal courses,
that they would not have agreed to
adapt their rulings and tenets to the
fancies and interests of the powers
that be. 1t might have been mag
ined that the freedom of the philoso-
pher and of the artist would have sur
vived far away from the crowd in a
few secluded spots.
Well, the process of imposing upon
a community of 66,000,000 persons
the passionate mind of the Fuher-an
uneducated mind-has not spared
anybody or anything. And by now
that mind has become wellnigh unin-
telligible. The popular theology which
expressed it, the set of slogans which
had been circulated to indicate rough
ly how the moral and material reha-
bilitation of the German people would
proceed, how race purity could be en-
forced in the course Of time-all these
have been suddenly dispensed with.
Two Consequences Seen.
From that capital fact two main
consequences can already be seen:
The first is in relation to the ex-
ternal influence of Germany. The
pam -Germanist or "Mittel Europa
policy implies the grouping under
Germanic guidance of those who in
habit the Zone Of small nations" be-
tween the Baltic, the Adriatic, the
Egean and the Black Seas. That
German guidance Is more unlikely
than ever to prove acceptable once
the German power has been cut short
Of all the attractive features Of Ger
man civilization.
Let us consider, for instance, the
case Of the Roman Catholics, who hold
the territory of the Saar and the
country of Austria and, more often
than not, conform with the instruc-
tions sent from the Vatican. How is
it possible for them to associate freely
with a regime that assails their
church, condemns their leaders and
treats as scrap of paper the con-
cordat recently signed with Rome?
That remark cannot but apply still
more cogently to the half German,
half-Slav ethnic groups which carry
the German banner in hostile sur
roundings poland, Czechoslovakia,
Rumania). 1t is true that, above
everything else, they expect physical
support from Berlin and do not care
much about anything else Neverthe-
less, the ways of peaceful penetra-
ton" among their clinical enemies
are closed to them as a result of the
frantic figure Germany cuts in the
world today. Therefore they feel
compelled to resort to a policy of
murder.
Suppression Is Ruthless.
The suppression by the use Of the
revolver or the hand grenade of the
statesmen who are supposed to be
pillars of the national states against
"Mittel Europa" is ruthlessly carried
out. Duca, the premier of Rumania,
was slain last December; Dollfuss, the
Austrian Chancellor, in July. Who
will it be tomorrow?
The only solace that can be found
in this situation is that aSsassina-
tion, both inside Germany and out
side, undermines and ruins the moral
stamina of the German nation and
bids fair to make it incapable of that
moral discipline requisite for the
prosecution of war. In that way it
may be argued that individual aggres-
sion rather saps the nerve of inter-
national aggression.