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are typical examples of a benevolent dictatorship. Nor can the appeal
ol Nazism with its slogans so attractive to a not over-discerning youth
be ignored Much of its legislation in this respect will survive in a
newer and better world, in which Germany’s amazing power of
organisation and the great contributions which she has made in the
^ past to the sciences, music, literature and the higher aims of
civilisation and humanity will again play a leading part.
idpnt li 0 ) Yi the imit y ° f Great Germany in itself an ignoble
ofrw J fc ?v d i° ng beer ! ? he dream of some of the highest-minded
man thinkers, and it must be remembered that even in 1914
mtprnipf W m- 8tl i ! mmatu f as a Political concept. In spite of the
nh L POl ; hC f 1 dan 1 ger for lts weaker neighbours of a national
top TrM W v Ch f° u d so . easil y be distorted and extended beyond its
i f TT, fl ; ont f rs ’ the nnity of Great Germany was a
eahty which had to be faced, no less than that other reality the
V Zuth 0 vf\ eC °Y miG im P? rtance of Germany in Eastern, Central and
the Sndptp t n r r EUrOPe ‘- I ^ WaS T5 n . 0fc u t h e ^corporation of Austria and
the Sudeten Germans in the Reich which so much shocked public
Herr^H’tl ^ f the un ® cru P ulou8 an d hateful methods which
r V r 1 / 1 ! ei em ployed to precipitate an incorporation which would
probably have peacefully come in due course of its own volition and
acc<H dance with the established principle of self-determination.
i . 7 ; , Yat even those methods might have been endured in a world
to ittl/ f l^ 4 - 1918 and Which sou g ht P eac " a8 an end
whipb h’p p! YZ' bGen Wlllmg t0 aCCOrd to other8 fch e rights
which he claimed for Germany. Revolutions are like avalanches
which once set m motion cannot stop till they crash to destruction
whetoPi Tr T-rli th ff f reer ' Histor y alone wil1 determine
. et igi Herr Hitler could have diverted Nazism into normal
channels, whether he was the victim of the movement which he had
initiated or whether it was his own megalomania which drove it
beyond the limits which civilisation was prepared to tolerate.
Aumist ]t may ’. the background to the events of
vpar ft ! 939 u th f occu P atlon of Prague on the 15th March of this
lihprtv ° US de . st ™ ctl °n thereby of the hard and newly-won
liberty of a free and independent people and Herr Hitler’s deliberate
^lolahon by this act of the Munich Agreement which he had signed
not qmte six months before. In 1939, as in 1914, the origin of war
^ it i Geimany has been due to the deliberate tearing up by the latter
of a scrap of paper. To the iniquities of a system which employed
the .barbarism of the middle ages in its persecution of the Jews, which
subjected Roman Catholic priests and Protestant pastors alike to the
inhumanities of the concentration camp for obedience to their
religious faith and which crushed out, in a fashion unparalleled in
history, all individual liberty within the State itself, was added the
olo Tlw on A v .°! international agreements freely negotiated, but
also of that principle of self-determination which Herr Hitler had
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