If it be true that a new world organization is requisite, the mere fact that the Germans were the first to see it does not mean that they should be allowed to develop it after their manner, but rather it neces sitares development of it by free peoples for their advancement and not for their enslavement.
No matter what happens to Hitler, there will indeed be a new world. Oh, it will be the same old world, the same old world so far as beauty is concerned, the mountains, the rivers, the oceans and the same sort of people with their loves and hates, their little and their large ambitions.
But it will be a new world in the sense of an advanced political, social and economic organization. This is the essential outcome not of war, which is merely incidental to human progress, but of the achievements of the human mind in the laboratories.
Without the inventors and the research men, there could have been no mechanized German power.
Hitler has abused this intellectual achievement and diverted it to a foul use. This is tragic. but not decisive. The really important thing is that invention has made feasible, and will progressively make more and more feasible, a world organization far and away better than any hitherto known.
That is progress—to have the dreams of the poets translated into a visible achievement by the realities of the laboratories.
IHE Parisians have no milk, no eggs. very little butter, no stockings, little coal, no soap. But they still have a sense of humour and this is no mean weapon against the Germans. By By a word here and a joke there, the subtle Parisians are bedevilling the life out of their stolid conquerors.
One thing the Germans can't stand is being ignored.
They are just like Kipling's Bandarlog, always trying to get the other animals to notice them.
The Parisians know this and delight in regarding them as if they were Every day their military band struts up the Champs-Elysees between 12 and 1, Men in the street don't even turn their heads, Women feign intense interest in windows full of dull automobile accessories, Sometimes in order to force an audience the Germans halt every car that passes, but the, drivers snatch up a paper and pretend to be deeply absorbed in it, We have learned that the ordinary soldier is very apprehensive about the expected attempt at invasion of England, The Germans are not a seafaring people and have an unholy dread of the water, One of the last days I was there, I saw three trucks loaded with life belts, driven by German soldiers, Every woman and child in the street called out, "Glug, glug, glug," and the soldiers turned purple, They are much concerned because they cannot keep the population from demonstrating their feelings at the movies, Films may be French, but newsreels are invariably German, When the screen shows a picture of Hitler, we all hiss and groan; Mussolini calls forth ironical laughter; the bombardment of England a chorus of "Glug, glug, glug."
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