AN UNPROMISING OUTLOOK.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 4

AN UNPROMISING OUTLOOK.

"It cannot be pretended," comments tbe Yorksbire Post, "tbat tbe outlook is in any way promising. Tbe only country that threat, ens is Germany, and yet Germany herself is threatened by none, But nothing is plainer than tbat Germana have everything to gain economically by a swift return to a policy of European neighbourlipess. Their very orgapisation, tbougb it is now almost entirely military, would go a long way to ensure a rapid recovery of normal trading capacity wbicb would eventually b,e beneflcial everywbere, But suoh a recovery is plainly not cousistent, as Mr Eden poipted out, witb tbe continuaiice of tbat overstraiu wbicb Germany's war preparatiops ai'e foreing uppn tbe wbqle economie and soeial sys-r tem of Europe. Nevertbeless, it is ippossible to suppose tbat Garmans, however much they are now driven in blinkers, wottld aotually ehoose a continuanee of pseudo-bero.ic restrietions to the restoration of a befcter ster^ard nf if %y fJta^Lbe cbgice w„a|