The Army on the Rhine.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19728, 19 September 1929, Page 10

The Army on the Rhine.

It has been very pleasant daring the last day or two to read the cable messages from London bearing on the evacuation of the Rhineland. When every allowance has been made for the sentimentality of the Germans, and for the tendency of people everywhere to 6ay things to-day that they will not wish to remember to-morrow, there remains a quite definite body of evidence that our soldiers have acquitted themselves well. Whether it has been easier or harder for them that most of them probably took no part in the actual fighting only the psychologists will be inclined to say. It is probably the case on most of the u home fronts " to-day that those who are most bitter against their enemies are those who are either too young or too old to have met them on the field of battle; and this will be quite as true of the Central Powers as of America, France, and England. But the happy fact is that there is very little war bitterness left anywhere. Prance continues watchful and even suspicious—though it is apparently not true that her regiments have marched into Wiesbaden as the British have marched out—but in England and America, where the reasons that account for Prance's attitude do not exist, there is no feeling about Germany but a slightly uneasy conviction that her economio recovery is very rapid and very sure. This is all as it should be, and suggests, if it does not prove, that the world is not quite so mad and bad as in wartime it is compelled to be.