They have promised next year a Peoples Car at £50, and have organized with much success their Winter Help Scheme. But, above all, since they came to power there has been a complete cessation of the week-end brawling and street fighting and May Day rioting which up till then were plaguing almost every town, so that many a peaceful citizen feels that what the present Government destroyed was not liberty but the misuse of it.
The Hitler Jugend. gives every town-bred boy physical fitness and a chance to discover what a gloriously beautiful land Germany is. Boys innumerable, walking or cycling with their packs, are to be met in summer on the road. One mourns for civilization when one hears them repeating like automata all the political nonsense and bravado drilled into them. How much of it survives the two years of hard army service which immediately follow the labour camp is uncertain; the army is realistic, honourable, not yet deeply Nazified.
As to physique, small German children look less healthy and sturdily. brought up than ours, and England avoids that degeneration into obesity which is so common by the age of 40; but between fifteen and twenty-five the contrast in Germany's favour is amazing, and will continue until there spreads again through England that. spirit of willing personal discipline in pursuit of an ideal which is planted and cultivated with such supreme adroitness by Nazi pr pagandists. On returning from Ce many to England one's eye is suddenly caught by something quite unaccustomed—the boyish slouch.
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