Tradition

To Goering's Essener National-Zeitung, Goebbel's propaganda directives are just talk. One day last week, while all other German papers docilely sought to make the worst news in months look good, fat Hermann's sheet used its four main news columns for an essay on Frederick the Great. Puzzled readers frowned until they came to: "Another would have crumbled under the concentrated hate of the world . . . [the] drastic change in fortune from triumph to defeat. . . . While the strength of his forces was reaching exhaustion, his will remained unbroken, but sometimes it seemed to be only the will not to outlive the fall of Prussia. ... It was this readiness to die . . . that the state might continue to exist which saved his life's work from collapse."

Readers recalled the old Prussian cere mony of offering a defeated fellow officer a cigaret, a revolver, one bullet.

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