THE WAR SPIRIT

Evening Star, Issue 18833, 6 January 1925, Page 7

THE WAR SPIRIT

STRONG IN GERMANY TO-DAY* WAITING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO STRIKE, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 5, Mr J. L. Garvin, in a remarkable article In the ‘ Observer,’ says j “ There is no disarmament of German intellect. Germany is saturated 'with war mentality, war thinking, and war dreams, and outpours able technical literature and vivid popular literature. The spirit of the great General Staff still exists, and no inspection or control on earth can ever suppress it. All the resources of man-power and industrial power are _ accurately known, and nowhere is the scientific study of new agencies of war—aerial, chemical, and elec-trical—-more intensely pursued. If the opportunity came owing to a change in the world’s political situation Germany could create a giant fighting power in a few months and would do so. This is the inmost tragedy of Europe and -the inevitable result of the Treaty of Versailles, and other people, if they were in the present position of the Germans, would do the same. The foreign occupation of Cologne can only, in these circumstances,_ bo _ a cumulative incitement and a diminishing security. • There can be no change for the better until the stability _of Europe is guaranteed by British policy. Wo must dispel the dreams of the German Nationalists, who would, if they could, destroy Britain by the aid of France or Prance by the aid of Britain.” —A. and N.Z. Cable.