This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... THE JUNKER FAITH SO much for the doughboy's religion. There is a rival faith among men--a faith that was largely responsible for the European war, but had little enough to say for itself while the battles were being fought, and became voluble again only when the doughboy's code had saved the world. I should ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... THE JUNKER FAITH SO much for the doughboy's religion. There is a rival faith among men--a faith that was largely responsible for the European war, but had little enough to say for itself while the battles were being fought, and became voluble again only when the doughboy's code had saved the world. I should call it the junker's faith, although it is believed and practised not by junkers only, but by many simple, democratic people who seem to accept it as something aristocratic and superior, or as a practical code for a practical and selfish order of society and a workaday world. A German officer once expressed it to me most completely--at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, in February, 1916, when the United States was still neutral and the Crown Prince's army was hammering at the gates of Verdun. "America and Germany are natural allies," he argued. "France, Russia, and Italyare too temperamental, too visionary, too revolutionary. They are trouble-makers. You Americans are practical. You put the affairs of your country in the control of the intelligent classes, as we do in Germany. You do not do it openly, as we do. You let the people believe that they govern themselves, but you have sense enough to leave the real power where it ought to be--in the hands of the practical people, the business men. You call them the 'invisible government.'" I interrupted to object that the American people were largely in revolt against this "invisible government." "No," he said; "the fact that it is permitted to rule shows that the thinking people want it to rule. Your intellectual classes must know in their hearts that its rule is necessary if your present order of society is to be maintained." He was a chance acquaintance, an officer of no importance, whom I had met at a...
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