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a fraud, at having disarmed himself at the Armis-tice on condition that these fourteen points wouldform the basis of subsequent peace. These con-ditions, he believes, were flouted by the PeaceTreaty which Germany had to sign under thepressure of starvation. This is the explanationof the re-emergence of Nationalist ideas amongthe German youth, which is suffering at the sametime under economic depression and moral dis-appointment. To the young German Republicthere was given no chance of success with whichto win the hearts of the young generation. Thefinal liquidation of the World War lies still in thefuture, and only if Germany is allowed to breatheand to hope, will the German youth gain thespiritual victory over themselves which would beworth more than all victories on the field of battle.A new Lincoln is wanted, to prove to the worldthat America really meant what it proclaimed andsigned and that the fourteen points were morethan bad propaganda which corroded the German front.

Only in this way can the unity of the westernspirit be restored. This unity, inheritance ofcenturies past, is the best feature for to-morrow.For the waters that form the main stream ofWestern idealism spring from Greek and Christiansources: Plato our father, as Jesus our Lord.They flow through the highlands of the MiddleAges, that spiritual Empire, the unity of whichis represented by Dante and upheld even to-dayby the Roman Catholic Church. Its mainaffluents are the Anglo-American Free Churches,