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In This Country We Have All Too Often Ignored Or

under- estimated this sense of mission which is at the root of German national self-assertiveness. " We have," wrote Arndt in 1815, " been placed by God in the centre of Europe.......

* * * * For All Who Know, And Try

to understand the Germans, will agree with me that there is a profound duality in the German character. On the one hand there is envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness:......

" Yes," Some Readers May Reply, " What You Say

may be true and is certainly most uncomfortable. But if, as you contend, this urge for expansiot is deeply rooted in German tradition, how on earth can we enucleate it except at......

Never Has The Inner Core Of The Pan-germanic Idea Been

better defined than in Sir Eyre Crowe's famous memorandum of January ist, 1907. That memorandum deserves to be quoted again and again:— " The vague and undefined schemes of......

Looking Back Upon The Events Of The Last Six Years

it is impossible to resist the conclusion that our essential error was to interpret Herr Hitler's ambitions in terms of " nationalism " (which for many of us still has about it......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON S IR WALTER LAYTON has been warning us against 10 the danger of epitomising this war under the slogan of "a fight to destroy Hitlerism." He contends that if......