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Sm,—Why does the "Rathbone School" always refer to " the last years "? One might suppose that Hitler, like a modern Circe, suddenly turned the nation into beasts. If they would take the mobil to study German history, as written by Germans, they might begin realise how ancient and deep-seated are the qualities Germans are displaying. These traits existed not only in Prussia, but, in spite more civilised intervals and individual exceptions, in Germany i You cannot change a people, even as docile as Germans, into arnbi world conquerors and bestial murderers in " ten years."—Y