GERMANY: Patriots on Tour

As the Hamburg-American's Reliance last week churned across the Celebes and Sulu Seas, a tiny, moving island of German territory on a world cruise, a bitter little passenger's war raged inside. A U. S. citizen of substance had given an interview at Singapore on Germany's violations of the Treaties of Versailles and Locarno: "I don't see how anybody can make any agreements of any kind with Germany, because she regards agreements as scraps of paper."

What he had forgotten was that citizens of all nations are transfigured with patriotism when they are abroad....

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