NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY Registed for transmission through the post as a newspaper. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1923. GERMAN NATIONALISM.

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1923, Page 4

NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY Registed for transmission through the post as a newspaper. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1923. GERMAN NATIONALISM.

' Pan-Germanism was the aim of Gei many before the war, ami the Pan - German ideal apparently is nut ye dead. An article by Professor Tlieo do re von Sosnosky in the "Quarterly Review" discusses "the new Pan Germanism," giving much ven valuable information. The Prof'esso: ! is admittedlv antagonistic to the Ger j man movement, but he writes sincere "! Iy and with obvious authority. He i; I at some pains fo make it clear thai I 0 I the causes of' the present Xafii.nalisl 'movement in Germany are thiee: 1 j First, the humilialion r-jfu.-ed l.y the • treaties of Versailles and Saint Ger- ] main; second, the increase of Jewish influence throughout- the public life of Germany and Austria; third, the French occupation of the Ruhr, and the passionate resentment thereby created. And of these three, while the last is the greatest, its combination with the other two is'lil.ely to affect the future of Europe in general, and incidentally that of Britain. Among the- extreme X'afionalists there is now being exhibited a tendency "to ally with Russian Bolshevism, with the idea of obtaining its help to shake off the French and to be revenged upon them." That su di an alliance ■would prove to be again " case of the wolf and the lamb, -and j that "Germany would be 'unable to free itself of the demons thus ovok:'d" seems probable enough without the logic of the Professor's arguments to prove if. The flood of Bolshevism would break, he says, "with devastating force all over Germany," nor would the chain of French. fortresses keep> it from overwhelming France as well. The English Channel then alone would protect Britain from direct invasion, and even if it proved sufficient for that, the social and economic effects of the disaster in Europe would unquestionably be drastically felt on English soil. That is the declares You Sosnosky, that England has to dread, and, it mav be added, if England has to dread it, the Empire and the world must dread iit as well. For that reason, he savs, there should be "grave mistrust- of the experiments of M. Poincare," for these it is which are "casting German Xationalism into the arms of Bolshevism and tending to bring | about tlmt world revolution which is the ideal of I-cnin and Trotsky.-" This is a point of view, an argument for the prosecution, which is as novel as it is significant. It may not be grounded on reason or fact, but it would be difficult to prove tha,t either is absent. Of the other two main causes of the Nationalist movement, Professor Von Sosnosky de-dares that the antipathy to the .Tews is probably the stronger, although the desire to restore the Monarchy and to end the humiliation into which it Is felt the Social Democrats have thrown the country is a very potent factor. The great- contrast between the powerful pre-war Empire of the Hohenzollerns and the present disordered Republic "works more effectively for the return of the monarchy than the most ardent, propaganda." "We can well believe that this is so among the unbalanced minds of the Germans of today, however illogical the reasoning may appear to those more caimlv capable of judging, and we can understand as well how >-"ii<-Ti a belief mav grow with what it feeds on until it .bursts all bounds of season and restraint. Professor Von Sosnosky sums up the aims of the Pan-German movement in the following- programme —Mi Re-establishment of the old German Empire; its union with the Empire of Austria under a Hohen/ollern, but not a Hapsburg. to which familv it seems the Nationalists are bitterly opposed: ihe suppression | of the present dovish supremacy, his J boMef in which is indeed (he only reallv weak sn,->t in the Professor's ait-icle: and f-3) vengeance on i- ran<-e. That the are already actively working to this pro •ramme is cVar; hut if is certninlv uf interest to learn that fliev have adopted nian'v of the methods ~f the Ku Klux Klan, together with (lie symbols and mvsteries of that notorous association. They have chosen for their symbol the "hooked cross. the I anions swastika, the "luck bringer'' of rlie Arvan people, and already the hooked cross has lound its \ictims. In She assassinations committed under its authority. among which we are assured those of Erzberger and Rathcnau are |to be included. Professor ■A on Sosnosky finds already grim evidem <• of j the influence of that Bolshevism he j fears so much.