The Archive · 1939

Dulled by Drifting

Rauschning believes that Hitler's policy was checked by Munich, which produced an unanticipated" effect against him through a change feeling in Germany. 1 war comes the nation will Might, and perhaps at the outset, even magnificently. But, he prophesies, the day will come when the leaders will need the crea tive and regenerative energies of the nation and its spontaneous response, and ina nation dulled by' drilling they will find none, They will find none even among the Youth on whose loyalty they have supposed "they would always be able to count, He concludes his remarkable book lon the note that although it may be that the whole Contingnt must 'Arst bbe shaken by yet another great and universal upheaval, which Will leave country unscathed, at the last a Fejavenated Europe will aloe' and Issue with every independent lor ordering of life, and, says Ring, it is bound to make an end of freedom and. initiative. Nothing more intolerable to it than originality, individuality, character or true public spirit. The common people are there not fo be served, but to be used.

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