It will be interesting, and tragic, to see what the Germans make of "France. In the Petain government a Minister of "Strength through Joy," or some such Nazi name, specially designed to corrupt young people on the Nazi model, has been appointed.
Now it is reported that sun-bathing and two-piece bathing suits have been proscribed on French beaches. "Feminine modesty" must be the watchword. The standards of enter; tainment in music-halls are also being bowdlerized. Morality of the boasted hausfrau pattern is the general order and wives of the fruitful vine pattern.
A good deal could undoubtedly be said for these rules. No one can think of the theatre or amusement resorts, at seaside or river, whether in France or England in recent years, without being "forced to the conclusion that liberty had degenerated into rather ugly licence and that public taste needed a tonic. But that is not to say that the Germans of all people are the right doctors to. pre-Scribe it. For one thing it is notorious that there is no country in which conjugal fidelity is so little regarded by husbands as Germany, while the wife has to bear it as best she can. Besides can anything good come out of Germany with its horrible doctrine, a legacy from Martin Luther by the way, that the State is above all considerations except its own gain, and can do no wrong? ce
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