THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Facing A Upon Contingency. • • \Vo believe that within five years the untonahility of the present assumption that reparations and debts are going (o he paid in any appreciable measure will he sufficiently clear so that a readjustment will he made, which will consider the international financial situation as olio problem, and will pro(csd to a general liquidation of the war obligations. W’e believe that many of those in positions of authority in this country as well as abroad are alreadv conscious of this probability, and ;’ie now acting a play of pious humbuggovy merely because they think public opinion will have to he educated the truth, by degress and would not stand the shock of a sudden revelation. For this truth is—is it not—that the AYar was a huge net loss to even-one engaged, victors as v.ell a> vanquished, and that wealth spent in such a destructive enterprise c-in never ho recovered.’' —“'I lie New Republic,” (l • S. A.)
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1926, Page 2
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163THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1926, Page 2
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