The New Europe/Volume 3/A Gem from Cologne

A Gem from Cologne

Last autumn, when the food-prospect in Germany looked anything but bright, the Kölnische Volkszeitung spoke thus:—

“Germans will still be persons of weight, of consideration, though a continuance of the war-rationing may reduce their physical proportions by many degrees. The big and fat, as a rule, are not to be found among the most distinguished of mankind. Hindenburg is perhaps a shining exception to that rule. Let us be thankful, then, that the very privations which the scurrilous English foe has forced on us must, by reducing the superabundant weight of the average German, and giving his mental and psychic nature more moving space, render even more formidable those endowments by the exercise of which he will in the future, as he has done in the past, defeat, overthrow, and confound the foe.”