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<b><font size="4">Vansittartism</font></b></p>
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<FONT SIZE=3>GERMANY is considered now, and naturally with great
reason, as the arch criminal among nations. Such megalomania, such
lust for wanton cruelty, such wild sadism, such abnormal velleities
no people, it is said, have ever evinced anywhere on the face of the
earth: the manner and the extent of it all are appalling. Hitler is
not the malady; removal of the Fuehrer will not cure Germany. The man
is only a sign and a symbol. The whole nation is corrupt to the core:
it has been inoculated with a virus that cannot be eradicated. The
peculiar German character that confronts and bewilders us now, is not
a thing of today or even of yesterday; it has been there since
Tacitus remarked it. Even Germans themselves know it very well; the
best among them have always repudiated their mother country.
Certainly there were peoples and nations that acted at times most
barbarously and inhumanly. The classical example of the Spanish
Terror in America is there. But all pales into insignificance when
compared to the German achievement and ideal in this respect. For
here is a people violent and cruel, not simply because it is their
character to be so and they delight in being so, but because it forms
the bedrock of their philosophy of life, their <I>weltanschauung.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>This is the very core of the matter. Germany stands for
a philosophy of life, for a definite mode of human values. That
philosophy was slowly developed, elaborated by the German mind, in
various degrees and in various ways through various thinkers and
theorists and moralists and statesmen, sometimes consciously,
sometimes unconsciously. The conception of the State as propounded
even by her great philosophers as something self-existent, sacrosanct
and almost divine – august and grim, one has to add – is
profoundly significant of the type </FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 87</FONT></P>
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the subconscient dynamic in the nation: it strangely reminds one of
the state organised by the bee, the ant or the termite. Hitler has
only precipitated the idea, given it a concrete, physical and dynamic
form. That philosophy in its outlook has been culturally anti-Latin,
religiously anti-Christian. Germany cherishes always in her heart the
memory of the day when her hero Arminius routed the Roman legions of
Varus. Germany stands for a mode of human consciousness that is not
in line with the major current of its evolutionary growth: she harks
back to something primeval, infra-rational, infra-human.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Such is the position taken up by Lord Vansittart who has
given his name to the new ideology of anti-Germanism. Vansittartism
(at least in its extreme variety) has very little hope for the
mending of Germany, it practically asks for its ending.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A son of the soil, an eminent erstwhile collaborator of
Hitler, who has paid for his apostasy, offered a compromise solution.
He says, Germany, as a matter of fact, is not one but two: there is
the Eastern Germany (the Northern and the Eastern portion) and there
is the Western Germany (the South and the West) and the two are
distinct and different – even anta&shy;gonistic-in temperament and
character and outlook. The Western Germany is the true Germany, the
Germany of light and culture, the Germany that produced the great
musicians, poets and idealists, Goethe and Heine and Wagner and
Beethoven. The other Germany represents the dark shadow. It is
Prussia and Prussianised Germany. This Germany originally belonged to
the bleak, wild, savage, barbarous East Europe and was never
thoroughly reclaimed and its union with the Western half was more
political than psychological. So this ex-lieutenant of Hitler
proposed to divide and separate the two altogether and form two
countries or nations and thus eliminate the evil influence of
Prussianism and unkerism.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The more democratic and liberal elements among the
Allies do not also consider that Germany as a whole is smitten with
an original sin and is beyond redemption. They say Germany too has
men and groups of men who are totally against Hitler and Hitlerism;
they may have fallen on evil days, but yet they can be made the
nucleus of a new and regenerated Germany. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 88</FONT></P>
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they say if Germany has come to be what she is, considerable portion
of the responsibility must be shared by the unprogressive and
old-world elements among the Allies themselves who helped or pitied
or feared the dark Germany.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Hence it is suggested that for the postwar
reconstruction of Germany what is required is the re-education of its
people. For, only a psychological change can bring about a durable
and radical change. But certain proposals towards this end raise
serious misgivings, since they mean iron regimentation under foreign
control. Even if such a thing were possible and feasible, it is
doubtful if the purpose could be best served in this way. Measures
have to be taken, no doubt, to uproot Prus&shy;sianism and unkerism
and prevent their revival, no false mercy or sympathy should be
extended to the enemies of God and man. But this is only a negative
step, and cannot be sufficient by itself. A more positive and more
important work lies ahead. The re-education of Germany must come from
within, if it is to be permanent and effective. What others can do is
to help her in this new orientation. As we have said, there are the
progressive elements in Germany too, although sub&shy;merged for the
moment. The task of reconstruction will pre&shy;cisely consist in
calling up and organising and marshalling these forces that are for
the Light. The Allied organisation, it may be noted, itself has grown
up in this way. When one remembers how Britain stood alone at one
time against the all-sweeping victorious march of the Titan, how
slowly and gradually America was persuaded to join hands, at first in
a lukewarm way, finally with all its heart and soul and might and
main, how a new France is being built up out of a mass of ruins, we
can hope that the same process will be adopted in the work that lies
ahead even after victory, with regard to Italy and with regard to
Germany. In the second case the task is difficult but it has got to
be done.</FONT><BR>
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