HOW TO TREAT POST-WAR GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 October 1942, Page 5

HOW TO TREAT POST-WAR GERMANY

A Gallup poll shows that 70 per cent, of Americans feel they are fighting against Hitler, and not against the Ger man people. This is a false and danger ous belief, which will lead to the same deceptions as the last war. The German warrior people as an entity, guided by its intelligentsia, first followed the Kaiser, and now follows a proletarian in its desire to conquer the world. Hitler is Germany. We can effectively protect ourselves against the war passion of the German people only by taking out of their hands for a certain time three things left to them in the Versailles Treaty—arms, education, and government. With peace every weapon inside the German frontiers, every gun in the hands of a .soldier or a policeman, should be car ried by a non-German. Education must fall into the hands of non-Germans who can speak German Religion, history, philosophy all teach principles foreign to the German character, and can only be infused gradually—tolerance toward other races, and acknowledgment that the spirit is su perior to force. As no one knows when the Germans will be ripe for self-government, the first years alter a peace a protective government like the one the English for 40 years exercised in Egypt should reign in Germany. What I propose is not a punishment, but a temporary de elaration of political immaturity.— <Emil Ludwig, eminent German writer, now in exile, speaking at Los Angeles. ) By apecLai a rr* momenta Heater"* *orid service in addition to other spe•iai sources at information, i« used m tile compilation of the overseas intelig#nce paolished in this and all gbts therein in Australia and Ncm . .ealand aee rcsuYedu