Must Find Accord With the Soviets, HLU Is Warned

The solution of U.S.-Russian differences will have to precede any lasting settlement in Germany, both speakers on the German mind agreed last night at the first summer meeting of the HLU.

William Hermanns, professor of modern languages at San Jose College, California, and Donald V. McGranahan, lecturer on social psychology at Harvard, stated that the Germans were trying to play the Russians against the United States and that real progress in German reorientation would have to wait until East-West differences were resolved.

So complex and so deep are the basic beliefs of the Germans that only a united effort could succeed in changing them. Thus up to now there has been no real shift in the German mentality, they claimed.

McGranahan cited an article in the New York Times which showed that 41 percent of the Germans still think that National Socialism was a good idea badly carried out.

Hermanns compared the present German mind to two drawers, one of which contains the Bible, Faust, Shakespeare's plays and a general knowledge of literature, while the other contains Mein Kampf, the works of Bismark and Frederick the Great, and the legends of the Teutonic Knights. In moments of crisis the German, Hermmans continued, discards the first drawer as "foreign thought values" and turns to the drawer which glorifies war.

McGranahan emphasized the fusion in the German makeup of unselfish idealism with a ruthless nationalism.