The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-12

ton already occupying the attention of great minds Twice in a generation Germany has torn the fragile fabric of world order. And these not the first times it has gone on aggressive rampages in the belief first that it was called by destiny to rule Europe, and second, enslave the world
 Count Carlo Sforza, former foreign minister of Italy, in his latest lecture at Western Reserve Uni versty, expressed the belief that the German mi- tary machine, rather than the German people, was to blame for these recurrent eruptions. He cau- toned against treating the German people harshly
 A somewhat similar view is held by that anti Nazi nobleman, Prince Hubertus gu Loewenstehi. Writing in the November Amefieah Mercury, he expresses the opinion that contrary to pessnlistc views, hold that the horrors the people have ex- perienced under Nazi persecution will result in a strong and lasting desire to return to the family of nations" Further he says that Only the army and the people together can overcome it." ''i.s ...5 t
 Count Sforza's goodness overcomes his better judgment. The army, the whole military establish ment. is institution expressing the fundamental character of the people. It did not descend from Mars and fasten itself upon Germany against the wishes of the people. It grew up through the years the practical expression of that superman inter- pretation of history made by such Ffchte and Hege It was endowed with aura of philosophic justification by Netzsche The German Army is the people
 Some liberals still cling to the myth, exploited to the full in the last war, that since the army is 1t is easy force to deal with. While currently Hitler controls it. and subordinates it's leaders to his Nazi friends he will put 1t forth as the power within Germany the day he his doom is inevitable.
 ! Prince Loenstein offers evidence to show that the army will not be used to organize sympathy" as it did toward the end of the last He offers no arguments to show why the German people will be reformed by their years under the Nazis any more than they abandoned their determination to rule the world after their years under the kaiser and their suffering in the World War. This time too the younger generation is fired with a burning Nazi fanaticsm that is more dangerous for the future than the most rabid imperialism of the "Hoch der Kaiser" variety of 25 years ago.
 Certainly the Social Democratic leaders took over state power from imperial Germany, but they tnued to bow to that power in the uniform of the army and in the persons of the Junkers to whom they paid state subsidies that far exceeded the called crushing" separations payments. They proved themselves incapable of self-government They had had no real training for it. Democracy in the western sense never was exercised in Germany either in town meeting or in the Reichstag. Today the situation is worse after than eight years of totalitarian government from the center.
 LoeWenstein would set up free German state probably somewhere in Africa to which democratic Germans could rally those within and outside the Third Reich This would be artificial creation If the will to have free government is latent in the Germans why hasn't such movement already been started spontaneously? The prince would have the British foster it.
 The truth is the German people will follow whatever leader grasps the reins of power They have not because of their history, qualities for self government similar to those of other European na- tons. They will have to be tutored for such task which may mean military occupation for years. But whatever the cost and whatever the inconvenience to the rest of the world the job will have to be done, for the world can not again be plunged into because 8O0O000O people have been dragooned into the belief that they destined to rule all mankind.