GERMANY’S INWARD STRENGTH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19986, 29 June 1920, Page 6

GERMANY’S INWARD STRENGTH.

HOHEN ZOLLERN TRADITIONS

Looking back at the achievements of out- Allies, I must admit (writes von Hmuenburg in his Autobiography) that in the service of our great common cause they subjected their own powers to the greatest strain that their individual, poliical, economical and ethical resources permitted. Of course none or them attained the ideal, and if it was wo who more nearly approached that ideal than the others it was only duo to that raigluv inward strength—a strength wc did'not ourselves realise at first—which wo had been acquiring in tho course of the last decades. _ Tliis inward strength was to he round m ail classes of our Fatherland. It did not slumber, but was always at work, and increased and multiplied oven as it worked. It is onlv when a State is healthy in itself, and an incorruptible liio force courses so strongly through it that at the critical moment tho unhealthy elements are swept along by it, that such feats are possible as those which we performed feats which went far bevond our obligations to our Allies. Thai those things could he is mainly due, as can historically be proved, to the Hohenzollerns, and, among them, our Emperor William 11., in the last epoch of German greatness. True to the traditions of 1 is House, this sovereign saw in the army the best school for the nation, and worked untiringly for its further development. Thus, Germany’s army stood out as the first in tho world: an imposing guardian of the works of peace before the war, and in the war the very manifestation of our might. ;