POST WAR GERMANY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 14, 1 October 1929, Page 2

POST WAR GERMANY

LACKS KOIWIEU SPIIUT. But what avail our air triumphs asked the ex-Kaiser’s fourth son August Wilhelm addressing the Bienien Stahlhelmers (Steel Helmets) s ays the Berlin correspondent of the London Times. Such feats as Di. Eckener’s achievements demand decision energy and ma rly courage, but the new Germany did not perform Idem They were the deeds of a few Germans who refused to he beaten down. He, like all Germans, wa s filled with joy to read of Tokio’s and America’s enthusiasm over the Graf Zeppelin, but it did not do Germany any good at The Hague. Germans must refuse to work for others, or to “swallow a pan-Euro-pean brew ,cooked by M. Briand (the French Premier) and served with English sauce.” Wilhelm deplored that the victories of Sedan and Tannenberg were mere fables nowadays. Post-war generations lacked the spirit of the former German victors.