New Mentality

Two events proved last week how utterly Republican Germany has laid aside the mentality of Imperial days: 1) The Reichstag voted 323 to 41 to continue for two more years the Protection of the Republic Bill, debarring Wilhelm II from returning to Germany. 2) His Excellency General von Pawels announced that under his direction there have been destroyed the last of the fortifications along the Polish frontier which Germany agreed to scrap in return for concessions from the Allies (TIME, Dec. 20).

These announcements provoked no disorder in the Reichstag or in public places; nor did even the Monarchist press express more than "conscientious objection."