THE PRUSSIAN MENTALITY
A world afflicted iu SO years with live wars, made iu Germany, must wonder -what is wrong with the German — or, to bo more precise, the Prussian—mentality. The answer seems simple, says the Daily Telegraph. It is lack of humour. A humourless race is a fanatical race; hence the coloured shirts, the goose-step and the mass 'hysteria in which the anthropologist sees a throwback to savage rites round tribal (ires. No man with humour, which is basically only a sense of proportion, could possibly confess to the halfpathological egotism of a Hitler. He could not talk, even for homo consumption, of Over-men appointed by a German God to rule neighbours who should be happy to kiss the yoke.
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Patea Mail, 5 January 1940, Page 2
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121THE PRUSSIAN MENTALITY Patea Mail, 5 January 1940, Page 2
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