and the Reich (which represents the nation) to enjoy independent political sovereignty as a State. The enormity of allowing States of the Con¬ federation to maintain Legations abroad must, and will, be put a stop to. As long as that continues to be possible we have no right to wonder that foreigners continue to doubt the stability of the framework of our Reich, and take their measures accordingly.
The importance of individual States will in future be more on the cultural side. The monarch who did most for the reputation of Bavaria was no obstinate particularist with anti-German sentiments, but one who was as much in sympathy with a greater Germany as he was with art—Ludwig I.
The Army must be kept strictly apart from all individual State influences. The coming National Socialist State must not slip into the mistake of the past in forcing the Army to undertake a task which is not and never ought to be proper to it. The German Army is not there for the purpose of proving a school for maintaining particularisms, but rather for teaching all Germans to understand and