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GERMANY TODAY
AND TOMORROW
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HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS
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1936
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To
The Inspiration and Advancement of
Understanding, Goodwill
and
Friendliness
Among all Nations
TO'Wards the Consummation
of Universal
PEACE
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THE GERMAN PEOPLE-NOW AND ALWAYS
A FOREWORD
previous books of
mine-Meet the Germans,
Meet the SpmiaTds
and
Meet the Japmese,
for example-
were friendlily inclined, though none the less frank, first-
hand studies of peoples whose government relations with
the world
in
general-but with America
in
particular-
had at some rime become somewhat strained. Had I
written about the folk of France, or of Russia, or of
Turkey-as I hope to do some day-I am sure that the
same sympathetic strain of goodwill would be equally
in
evidence.
From this it may be gathered that
my
interest in foreign
nations
is
largely human interest. I am not partial to
governments or to peoples in their more fonnal array as
nations, or to their states of deeper significance as races.
The likable and livable qualities of everyday humanness
too often disappear or become hideous in the "patty"
mold of their politics, or in the masses of a nation, or in
the mob animosities of race.
Governments and their minions are nearly always op-
portunists.
They must forever "play the game."
In
time
-which may be reckoned in centuries-they
all
fall. The
seeds of one nation's revolution may be planted
in
the
fountains of Versailles, and of another's revolt against
the governments of an inimical world
in
the Fourteen
Points of that same Versailles. Whichever it be, it came
SEVERAL
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