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220frustrated hope is better than no hope at all. Hatred againstthe causes of Germany‟s humiliation is the keynote of a newworld of neighbourly love. Youth declares that it did notsign the Peace Treaties and forces the hands of the oldergeneration to repudiate the obligation to pay the tribute imposedupon it at the point of bayonets. Tomorrow youthmay compel the government to repudiate the Reich‟s obligationsto let the Pole be master of the Corridor. What willhappen then? War will be almost inevitable. And yetyouth will not subscribe to the wisdom of older men. Itknows itself capable of taking the right road to a betterworld.Hitler has not made the German youth movement. Onthe contrary, German youth has helped to make his movementwhat it is today. The republic gives the voting rightto every citizen over twenty years of age. German youth ispolitical-minded. It is familiar with the great issues of theage. Reparations and disarmament, rationalization andGermany‟s place in the sun are problems which it discusseswith animation and gusto. A German boy of 14 is considereddull if he is not able to state his views on these issues. Hehears about them in school, at home, in the streets, and hereads about them in papers written especially for youth.While tramping in the woods he discusses them with hisfriends. Hans and Graetchen entertain each other withtheir views of the financial situation and the political positionof the Reich. They criticize the great and the near-great.They are public opinion, and they have to be counted upon.The young people of Germany give to the expression of