GERMANY AND REPARATION.
STATEMENT BY' EEZBEEGEE. (By Cable—Press Association— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ' NEW YORK, March 28. The Berlin correspondent of the "New York Herald" interviewed Herr Erzberger, who said:— "No man alive is-wise enough to know how much Germany will be able , to pay in reparations, because we cannot tell, even approximately, what Europe will be within, 20 years. We should) be able to pay a quarter more than we t can now if the Bolsheviks were replaced by a Rmsian Democratic Government, or if we could do business with States on favourable terms. That would mean that we could perform more. "I have come to the conclusion that there is only one solution of the reparations problem, namely, Labour conscription of the German youth. I could take, for about 18 months, every youth j and man, -rich or poor, for fanning on I State domains, cutting forests, reclaiming swamp land, and mining coal, and could accomplish work valued at 1,250,000.000 gold marks during the period* ot 18 months."
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 7
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172GERMANY AND REPARATION. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 7
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