GERMANY TRADE
HER ECONOMIC FUTURE • Pan-Germans assert that the plans foi the economic reconstruction of Europe which are now being discussed in tho Press are English, for Franco wishes to suppress Germany economically as much 1 as possible, while England sees the necessity for allowing Germany to get on her feet again. According; to the Berlin correspondent of the "Morning ' Post,"- ' they mistrust everything that- comes out • of England, however, for the, English, ' they 6ay, act only in English interests, ' and in this case, the English are 1 animated by crass egotism. ! Tho "Hamburger Nachrichten," one of ; the most prominent exponents of pan- | Germanism, states in its commercial sup- " plement that the English suddenly real' 5 ise that it does not suffice to have knockj " ed out all the German Michel's teeth onfl I that he must have a false set put in, foi I without teeth of some sort nobody can. ' eat, and if a person does not eat he'can. not work. All nations _ now prostratt have, however, to work in the Englisl ' interests, and hence Great Britain's de> ! sire to re-establish Germany economic 1 ally. Pan-Germans regard this desir< " nevertheless as a gain for Germany, and } with their instinct for "profitieren" thoy J seek to place their feet firmly on th< ground they consider they have gained. r < Dr. Theodor S'chicmann, Professor of' *■■ Modern History at Berlin University, who ' for. many years, conducted the Foreign 3 Department of the "Kreuz Zoitung/and I was for a time Eector of Dorpat JJni, ? versity, explains in tho "Lokalanzeiger" that the British admission is to a certain extent satisfactory, but it is quito charac; , teristic of the mendacious and hypocritical procedure of Mr. Lloyd Geor'go, and tho ersatz Clemenceau, that theso states, ' men deliberately ignore the means bosl adapted to restore Germany to coonomw I life. These are, the learned professoi tetntes, the return of tho portion of the ' commercial fleet which on the outbreak of { war found refuge assured by international law -in neutral, and especially, American porta, and tho return of colon-; ies of which Germany has been robbed, '" The least that Germany could.olaimiu' IT respect of colonies "if a spark-of justic« wore still alive among our enemies would '" be tho Teturn of East Africa, which wa? "■ so gloriously defended, and the reco(f< 1 nition of the right of possession of pn- . vate persons in South-West Africa. , Profitieren, the gaining of some peri '' sonal advantage out of every situation I and opportunity, was a practice much . favoured by Germans Ion? before the ? war. During and sinco the war, how- > ever, it has be»n immensely improvw : upon until the Germans may.now be dw scribod as masters in the art. What 1 happened during the war may perhaps : bo considered os only natural in tna : circumstances, but what has happened : sinco tho 'war and is still happening :s surely' unparalleled in tho history ofi * any nation. To mention only the enso of "German babi?s, about which the Gcr- " mans wail so bitterly, it has been pub-, 3 lielv admitted that tho Germans sell,. • their cows at immense profits to foroira- ;" ere, whose currency has not depreciated/ as the mark has, and then complain to ; P- tho world that German children and <*■ '' poctont mothers are languishing becanisd '» there is no milk to give them. ■ I Grain of certain kinds is sold at ■, \ tremendous profit to foreigners, while in J Germany itself .tuo bread ration has nod to bo l'eduoed. There is a terrible shortage of wood not only for fuel, but also for building purposes and for making ' furniture. The price of furniture, for f example, has gone up 1000 per cent and '" is exceedingly scarce at that prise in tho r country itself. And yst German manu- ;" factum's and producers have sold and j" are selling to "foreigners their produce, " which ought to bo placed, ,irithin tho • 0 reach of- the German peopl?, at prices ! J which vield unprecedented profit.. man sliops ai* nearlv denuded.of their * stocks, and state that there is no prospeot *" of obtaining fresh supplies, paid in the f" meantime peoplo have to pajwoxorbitant L " prioes for tho" few things they are comc" polled to buy and can still obtain. PoS< ■ sibly Garmans hopo to utilitt) the d 6. '" preciation of their money to make thoif . *" former enemies pay'part of their war "f debt - ' ■'■ ■' -'
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 193, 11 May 1920, Page 7
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