GERMAN DESIRE TO BE LED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 4

GERMAN DESIRE TO BE LED.

“The . complete internal collapse which followed Germany’s downfall in 1918 is, of course, one of the main reasons for the present situation,” said Miss Enicl Lockhart in a recent broadcast talk. “The unhappy country swept by Communism', starvation, revolution and every form of vice, “drifted hither and thither like a, rudderless ship, .seeking a guiding hand upon the helm, and found at—most unfortunately for herself—in Adolf Hitler. Here is something which we ourselves as free thinking and acting people find difficult to understand: the average German must be l<kl by a greater intelligence than his own. Unless he is very.exceptional he will not, cannot, become a. leader except under higher authority. Proof positive of this lies in the fact that at the present time, among 80,000,000 inhabitants, no new star, even among their own crowd, has come forward to swell the Gocring, Ribbentrop and Goebbels clique. Their sentimentalism has led the younger generation. to blind fanaticism and mass hysteria. Dazzled by military parades and chimerical visions of future greatness, the youth of Germany is becoming absorbed by the State, and entirely separated from the focal point in a nation’s life—the influence of home. ,family and mother.”