Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. Not all items have full text. This column is designed to give the students an insight into current affairs occurring in the world at large. It is based upon personal interpretation of news or magazine items, and subjects are chosen according to the news of the day. Today's column is con- cerned with political impressions received while living in Germany this past summer.
Since the beginning of human nature, there have been wars. His- tory relates countless tales of bloodshed, and woe, stemming from man's combined desires for power and possession. Prominent among the struggles of country against country have been the endless chain of quarrels between the lands of the German and French peoples.
The situation could be described in this fashion: here lie two na- tions, side by side. Their cultures, tongues, manners, backgrounds differ.
Dividing them quite prom- inently is the valley of Saar, rich in coal. In addition each country holds assets of great value. Each country is a green pasture, but the pastures of the other always seem richer, more promising, than those already in possession.
And there they lie, in a combined area less than that of the United States. As history will indicate, whenever one of them felt himself man enough to lick the other, and thereby have a larger and green- er pasture ,the armies would de- scend and blood would flow.
