GERMANY: New Sparta

One look at Viscount Rothermere's familiar face, say friends of this Hearst of England, gives one his intellectual measure. From Munich last week Lord Rothermere cabled thus to his string of British papers (3,350,000 copies daily, exclusive of provincial publications):

"Germany is on her feet again. Miracles are done by faith and the Germans have found a new and potent faith which has given Germany a new soul. Germany is a new Sparta.

"The same spirit of national discipline and self-sacrifice, which earned for the few thousand inhabitants of the small Greek city state...

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