PRUSSIAN BOAST
SPIRIT OF POTSDAM BERLIN, March 14. “The world frequently derided the spirit of Potsdam, and laughed at Potsdam militarism and its goose-step. But it stopped laughing when the tread the Prussian grenadiers reverberated on the battlefields.” General Gocring, Premier of Prussia, made that boast when speaking at the investment of Major-General Friedriche as Mayor of Potsdam, reports the Berlin correspondent of the Times. General Gocring pronounced Prussia’s epitaph as “geographical expression,” owing to its disappearance in Nazi reforms. Nevertheless, lift added, Prussia would go marching on. “This steadfast, soldierly stock, not a babbling multitude of addlepates,” would restore German greatness. The tramp of a single disciplined battalion was worth far more Hum the choicest Parliamentary speech. Germans, declared General Gocring, should lie proud to be laughed at as a nation of militarists, for the Prussian spirit of devotion to duty had regained the honor of the Reich. Prussia had prepared the Reich for the Napoleonic, Austrian ,and French wars, and would now, under Hitler, become a mightier bearer of the Reich idea.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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174PRUSSIAN BOAST Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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