Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.