Discussing the Peace, the Independents' paper "Die Freiheit" says that the complete fulfilment of the demands of the Allies is not within the range of possibility, bnt Germany must show that she seriously desires peace by banishing the spirit of militarism and Kaiserism-The Pan-German "Lokalanzeiger" dilates on German innocence and asserts that the Entente Powers have' imposed on unfortunate Germany all these burdens and humiliations to indemnify themselves for the fact that no foreign soldier set foot in Germany during the whole war. All energies must be set to work, it contends, to prevent submission to such peace, otherwise there will be nothing left of proud Germany in 10 or 20 years.
Tuar "Kuntur" Acars.
Professor Dietrich Schiifer, one of Germany's leading historians, who attained political fame during the war, contributes to the "Lokalanzeiger" an article on peace which occupies the front paige of a special supplement, headed "Under the Peace Yoke," and adorned with figures of two men with chains round their necks. The i professor declares: "We went +o war with the proud hope of being able to assure Germany's position in Europe and in the world and her place in the sun." He proclaims as an apostate and traitor to his country every German who does not maintain that this striving was justified. He describes at length the benefits that conquering Germany would have bestowed on the rest of the world, and shows how greatly the development of. mankind is retarded the fact that it is Germany's traducers. who have succeeded and that Germany lies prostrate and overwhelmed not only with inexpressible misery but also with disgrace and shame. "We must—start again," ho says, "in the cause of mankind, for German Kultur has something to-give the world, but she can give this only when she thas power behind her.""
The words Gott mit Uns are still conspicuous in the heading of the Junker journal the "Kreuz Zeitung," though it admits that "wed Christians are disappointed in our hopes and expectations. We confidently anticipated that God would have helped the German people, and would have saved them now from hate and envy and from brutal oppression. Our enemies are for the most part God-Jess and immoral. Why should God not be gracious to our people? "The spirit of Versailles. that is, the materialistic spirit, has for a time triumphed over the spirit of Potsdam, which is based on_idealism. But the spirit of Potsdam not dead. It lives not only in history, byt. above all, in the Hearts of the Prussian youth.
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