NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY With which is Incorporated the NORTHERN MAIL DAILY. Registered for trasnmission through the post as a newspaper. FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921. THE NEW GERMANY.

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NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY With which is Incorporated the NORTHERN MAIL DAILY. Registered for trasnmission through the post as a newspaper. FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921. THE NEW GERMANY.

Recent cubic culminating in the report of Mr Chnmberlain's statement to tlie House cf Commons that Germany actually has fulfilled or is fulfilling all the terms of ■the Allies' ultimatum, indicate that at last a

change of heart has been experienced in Germany. Herr Wirtk's speech a (iuy or two ago, which was reported f'i.r in at rather unusuaUcngth, was cx-ccllont in tone, and the fact that the Allies are seriously considering the question of cancelling the sanctions that wim'c imposed in London lastIsfarch must be taken to mean that

Gr-nnany's now attitude is regarded ns sincere. It has not been easy to bring the Germans <to their present frame of mind, and it must be sftitl for them that their position as the beaten side in the war 'certainly necessitated a complete revolution of their ideas. For fifty year.? they had accepted the mailC"l fist policy as their national ideal. In ii very few years their ideal av.ih shattered, and it has naturally been lard to make them underhand that disaster is the only end for the nation that shapes its policy upon the doctrine that might is right. If, after following the Junker* through bitter trials, the Germans have at last realised that to be a great Power and to have a place in the world they must abandon the militaristic policy, then they have

taken the right path. Fcr nearly three years the German military machine. shattered bui not wholly rlestroypci in ihe -»vni ; hft~ tried to r.-fpin ii ■. old pi.i. ■ Tl hn ; itLr. l by v......v. methods to des!roy that Allied rmiiy which brought about its dofeat upon the battlefields. It has failed completely. rind the German people, living under n Republican Constitution, knmv* fl-hafc it has failed. There is nothing loft for the nation except to begin e;iin and try to l)uild up its economic position. The Allied hope i< that as progress is made in that direction ihe Germans will be wise enough 1o remember the disaster to their national honour and prestige resulting from ihe war engineered by the military ela«s. and that they will in future refuse to be again enchained in the military machine. If the spirit being shown by the Germans at the present time means that, then there is great, hope for a better and a more peaceful Europe. Germany can and should be a power for good in the world, and though the past fifty years have be-rn waited I years, there is every chance that she may become as strong an influence for j pence as she has been for war. Tt is ■ yet very early to judge her new attitude, but the world will know her by her works. Herr Wirt-h, the new Chancellor, has expressed the right type of ' sentiment. If will be inreresMng fo :iete what action follows from the peo- | pie whom he leads on to the new path, j The Allies will be very phased if the sincerity, of which there i; now evidence, leads to a new Germany, devoted to the cause of democracy and peace.