Show Germans Not Penitent NO 0 pe penitence ten e but great cynical disappointment sums up the Germans German's frame of mind concerning tho the war according to the testimony of Englishmen returning returning returning return return- ing from visits sits to Germany They are blue as indigo because they failed but careful search of the tho co country country- un try try- even now flOW when the facts are aro known will known will fail to discover discover disca dis dis- dis- dis ca cover er any trace of repentance Their ideals aro are just the same as ns they ever were only adapted under constraint constraint constraint con con- to their altered circumstances r exaggerated ag- ag egotism entire lack of sympathy with any my and andal andal al other nations and fatal sense of humor arc said to remain unchanged The soldiers maintain that they were stabbed inthe inthe in inthe the back by the revolution at home The civilians assert assert assort as as- sert sort that the soldiers were demoralized into defeat by allied propaganda that the general staff still tried to run ever everything thing though outside their own jobs they were incompetent and that their statesmen were we the tho last la t word wordin wordin in inefficiency One might conclude from this arraignment that German German German Ger Ger- man patriotism was in the main a n. thing imposed by authority au nU- and when the old dynastic structure tumbled i what had bad looked to be iron and granite proved to be straw and plaster The Tho bitterness of heart Germany in is s thought by unprejudiced observers to be about equally equal equal- ly zy distributed against th their ir own war lords for having lost and England France Prance and the United States for h having ring won tho the war I These are arc English deductions and nd they may accurately accurately describe the present German frame of mind yet I Iwho who can tell what lies at nt the tho bottom of that well of I disappointment chagrin n and humiliation n t If th ere is no penitence there is room for revenge and when Germany Germany Ger Ger- many has filled out her enfeebled body the grim vi spectre may stalk again through the sunny vales of I Franco France Yet is it too much to expect that before that I evil vil day an agreement that will be valid and binding I will have been I among the nations including Germany entered into that will effectually preserve the peace o othe of the world and vouchsafe io to humanity that there will willbe willbe be no more War wart T I r |