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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 3rd. 1919
THE GERMAN PUZZLE
one of the most surprizing features of the Great War was that coln
eident with Germany's moral secession from civilization there was an intel
lectual secession which made it apparently impossible for rest of the world to
undertand the German or for the German to understand us. says a recent
number of tlie Independent. There is nothing perplexing about mere wicked
ness. It is as natural, tho of course as deplorable, for a community'to be
cr'iel, greedy and unscrupulous as for an individual to be so. In attempting
to obtain dominion by treachery and butchery the German Government was
but following in the path of a thousand forgotten dynasties and empires. It
is a long time since the Devil invented any new sins, and the student of his
'tor.v cAn.ito*! nifftr',j>re<»£lent for^vitat th^ Germans have done in the annals
of otherH»$oples? but wonderment Singles with indignation when we read
the sayings and writings of Germany’s .spoksemen and. apologists. They seem
to think in a different way from others and even when they write in an ex
cellent English their idea:; are almost untranslatable.
One example of what we mean is the Inability of the Germans to re
alize that there are other political facts in existence than »he rivalries of nat
ions. They assume that every one is ■pm-German" or anti-Japanese” or
■ Anglophile" or "Russophobe”; they cannot understand that any one is In
t- iested in the international aspects of monarchy, republicanism, aristocracy,
democracy. Catholicism. Protestantism. Socialism, liberalism, and similiar
issues, and may even consider them as of greater importance than the con
riets of languages and the intrigues of diplomats. They cannot comprehend
t by the American people were, as a whole, suspicious of despotic Russia in
the summer of 1916 and cordial friends of democrnctic Russia in the summer
of 1917. They scented "British gold or the. "N'orthcllffe press" as the hidden
eause for the anger of the American people at the invasion of Belgium and
tite Armenian massacres and sought the subtlest causes to explain our simplest
emotional rc-nctlons. When an American of Slovak or Siamese or Choctaw
nncostrv expressed disapproval of the assassination of hostages or the pois
oning of wells a deep murmur mu trim all the German press, and the words:
"We understand: he is moved to denounce us beenuse of his Anglo-Saxon
ancestry and affiliations."
1 nqtiestlnnnbly the national slate is a fundamental tutd important poli
livai fact, list it is strange that the German of today can see nothing else.
Ii was not always so even in Germany. Kant I.uther. Schiller and Goethe
.■re claimed by their Justly proud fellow countrymen as the very essence of
Germanism, hut not one or them would have asked first about a stranger:
Is he a glorious Teuton or only a miserable Frenchman?" i.uther would rath
er have inquired whether lie was a Roman Catholic or an adherent of tho re
formed faith: Schiller whether he was a liberal or a courtier; Goethe whether
lie Was ten enlightened mail or an uneducated philistine; Kant whether or
rot he obeyed "the Monti 1st* within hint". They all lived in Germany mi l
lined it. hul they all recognised a higher Fatherland in which a man of any
t tee might acquire t-itisenship. Kven such enemies of humanity ns Met
. ttieit and Xietssehe could see over the wall of •Deutschtum" and knew
that there wore other lands and other ways of thought. Metternhh out in.
tcrested In despotism as a principle, but he did not care whether a king had
'Town Xietssehe himself I lasted of being "a good European.'
Hat the unhappy German of today applies his single measure to everything:
n. ver whether anything is good or had. kind or cruel, wise or foolish, civil
i*od nr barbaric, hut always "deutrh" or "nicht deutsch".
Kven the meaning of nationality is not to the modern German what
I. is to the test of the world. The Gentian insists that the AlsatJun must be
good fellow-German bemuse he speaks the same language:-which Is like
--•nt.ndlng n-an -it irb-h rcl-ei proves himself a loyal subject of the llrittsh
King whenever lie .ddi-sa-s a molt in the King’s Knglish instead of the prim
itive Gaelic He i. convinced that a few profeaaon of anthropology rag
I erauade the Flemi.lt people that the) are really Germans and have nothing
In ommon with their French speaking fellow.Belgians To the American,
tl.e Frenchman, th. KngH.hnt.oi nationality la a psychological nutter, a
question of the .dlegtance of the mind and hmrt. The modern Germans argue
that It IS a physiological matter .. -function of the shape of tho head nr the
accent of the voire. The American toasts like a man. that his ration is
t ended on an idea The <iennai, boasts tike s wolf that hi. nation is found
• «i mi n •(min nf blond, ;« cupenor (rtl* nr
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