It is a Police State such as we have never known, not even before '48.

For at least every man got his rights in those days, scanty as those rights may have been, and the official was not the enemy of the citizen, but his somewhat despotic guardian and protector.

Shall I say all?
The most consoling class to me in Germany to-day are the Social Democrats.

They have independence of spirit, self-denial, character, and idealism.

Their ideals are not my ideals--far from it--but what does that matter?
It is relief enough to find people who have any ideals at all, and who are ready to suffer and die for them.