Show Germans Learn But Little Follow Old Thought Processes New c Assembly Wants Vans Only to 0 Forget Past as and All 1 I Expect t to io Be TIc Out Now N OV Wa Is Over I l That Bj Big Big- Weimar r. March 3 Correspondent or of the tIo Associated Press Tho Tho nn national aK has R been at worn ork some somo weeks now an and has s demonstrated ed d d among nanon other othor two thing clearly Jt at 18 la una unable hie to do business s much morn mor than the tho old chieflY chlof thoro thorn IH hi little unity unit ntH and nud much dissension iI J tween the tho parties and the th f old order of oC things has hns lI changed cd ver trY vrY despite the myriad of or new faces The latter Is I perhaps p the most mOlt Im Important mi- mi point because tho the was ivas hailed by b- countless countless- German papers particularly by tho the agencies that thai the tho hO tho outside with news as supply begin begin- birth of ot tho the new now republic tho ho ring of oC a n n now no W regime the 1 HM 11 1 G emblem of the tho pa passing of oe the old It Is new in a sense e. e and tho ho old re regime h hUs J passed po perhaps hap but there thero are arc enough h of the tho old people loft left and nd arc no not of oC tho the new people BO so many much unlike tho the old oW that tho the effect In InI Is If not much mud theatre I imn ho Iho Weimar ferent from the One heart hears precisely tho the same e arguments from the tho floor watches precious time fly nr b by over o tho the same samo or similar arguments despair of con- con nit api H used to make ono le legislation Perhaps the time most mOlt striking striking- thing thinE I is tho the tono tonn cnn of the tho he great grent majority of ae the tho delegate has hns party speeches Just one time the conser- conser tho to attack had tho ho courage o and the moral strength to go goon goon 0 on record a as s admitting that Germany Gt hail had something to do i with starting tho the war var Deny Man Ian after man regardless of party part has lias In speeches proved to his own that ibis ibis- Ft sla s- s at and the houses house s sin fila la Franco ir nr England not Germany German started the tho t var ar neither He Several Heral ral have ha declared declared that tho the German government ho nor no the tho i Gel Gar ciman ci- ci nina man people wanted the tiLO war nr or l knew knOiS neW neWen even en that mat It was coming coining let alone the remotest it or having ln beginning thing to do with starting It One lone bile man has hIll haLt the courage c to tell the that the German treatment of or Belgium lum forever foro Drover forbids G German Grman complaint from being effective The rho great bulk of or the delegates s. s as the German Ger Ger- northern least of ot I great bulk bull at adopted the attitude at- at to have ha man many It is all an over now W We the people didn't start the thing at nt an any and square sQuar lots lot's start out oven o rate so with no hard feelings s on nn any side And Anti singular as ns It may seem scorn there docent doesn't seem to be a n. person hardly hardt who can get et the time viewpoint of an any foreigner for for- eigner cigner even that of ot the tho now popular Am American rho The Tho Assembly is tho the principal outlet for every known kind ot of propaganda Indulged In nearly as ns vehemently and amI excitedly by tho the social democrats as b by tho the conservatives Alsnee Often DIcu Discussed cd First there Is the Alsace Lorraine question It It H comes up three four a dozen times Umas a session sCISsion and amI always alwa's rouses the same s enthusiasm EVIr Every old and worn shop argument Is trotted out and cheered It has never occurred to tho the Germans that on tho the other side of the fence there thero are fairly good arguments nr- nr to support Francos Franco's retention of these provinces Tho The Junction with Austria provokes an almost equal enthusiasm and It would almost seem se-em as If half halt the speak speak- era ers insert it In their speeches for that purpose alone A countryman from farthest East Prussia can he be sure suro of a abrao the brethren n nIn bravo brao IC if he mentions In Austria yearning to become the tall tall- end of ot the German Gorman kite kite- The swig question has come to tho the front latel lately and nd Germany is filled with propaganda to show that should hould and must mUtt remain Germ German n. n No speech is complete without at least a ref reference to Poland and Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- slovakia an and the longer on er the reference the more bravos bra Yet not one of the thel l speakers but l knows that these questions ques Jues- will vill bo be settled for good or for Ill by the peace penco conference Same Stolid Attitude The failure of the tho German to chan change materially is us in no way better to bo lie th thai tha in his attitude to the tle observed h It question 01 OL lIe ino U ui JL mo u war n. n n nIs Is only rarely that a criticism of It is heard In the he house and tho ho general feeling seems to bo be that if Ie anything was wrong with it It that is all in the past and should be lie forgotten or overlooked overlooked overlooked over over- looked by Germany B The Thc prisoner of war ivar question Is a a puzzling to the tho student of ot German Pl psychology Just now now- as aa anything else Virtually er e every speaker touches upon the prisoner question before he lie leaves leaven x the tribune Toll a German first that tb he the armistice made no provision for forthe forthe forthe the return of ot German prisoners and antl secondly that thit while Germany bC begs I dally daily for fOl food she bhe I he attempts at the same time limo to saddle h herself with Soy SOU- more mouths to feed and it has no effect on him It cannot be sheer pity for the tho welfare of oC the 1 prisoners be because because because be- be cause plenty of Germans know anI only too well how host slim the tho food is The assembly has had Its fill of oC I speech making that consists of party programs that everyone knows of more frequently In n attacks s. s often I personal that th show how bad Jail the lie feelIng feeling feel- feel Ing lug IB la ben beneath ath the thc j. j Now Xo It proposes to do some r real ai work In lii com corn The pr press ag may not attend but gets what the lie committees care to give h Gut cut unless some orne member tells tales out of or school chool Viewpoint IN Is Unchanged d Listening o 0 o d delegates to the as assembly assembly joI as- and talking to Germans outside of It the correspondent finds LindH that the time theold old German viewpoint he lie learned to know 80 W I during tho the war until the breach with America is still sUll abroad broad in the land though In less les truculent form The German thinks differently from any other human lutman being in the world and therefore does not understand wh why he now should suffer Buffo I wh why everything c cannot be be placed on a a. basis of or status quo ante why anyone should hold against him a a. conduct of or the tho war with which he claims he had nothing to do Ho complains bitterly that sonic some of ot the troops of or the armies of ur occupation occupation occupation tion force tho the Germans to bare their heads when an officer r passes or walk walkIn In the street If It the answers are made that the Germans dl did l Just that In Belgium Bel Bel- glum gium and northern France he replies that one indignity does not warrant another and another and overlooks tho the part that human nature plays In the wa way was ot of re rc rc- al It crops out every da day and gen gen- several times a 1 da dav In th the I assembly ind lead heads nearly narl every ry enemy correspondent to tim the con lc I tion that lint thin th now German Is IR not hot at nt atall atall all alJ unlike the tho old ild one only onh grown ro n a abit abit abit bit more marc humble when that Is useful but mitt typically himself when ho lie gets Jets to talking before hl his hll j own kind and Roud utterly utter utter- ly h Incapable ever e of ot understanding anyone anon elso else or any other standpoint than bali his own o |