BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 18 June 1920, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

QUES’I‘.T.(')N OF TRADE REl,A’l‘l().\'*S.

The difiiculty of hldutzing 'lCnglishmen to resume trade relations with Germany is being radunlly overcome, but the “l1:::e" bred by the war is ;~:till.;1 formiélzxble obstacle. So tenncious is this feeling of hostility that Sir Auekl-aiid Geddes h':ls_ thought it necessary to address an earnest warning to those whose minds are stillswnyed by it. He tells them that when he hears people say ‘-‘Let us see that Gernmn indu.~:t.ries never rise again,” what. they are really saying is: “Let us see that the West Riding of Yorksliire is bankrupt when the American exelrange rights itself,” for that is what it means. One lesson, he atlds, thur the war ought to have taught the tl'a(lers of this country is that nations are intter-dependent, not indepemlent. “Not. as a matter‘ of Sentiment,” he contimies, “not even as a matter of h_um:mity——lea;<e that out if you \vill—~—lmt, as :1 matter of plain, .~elt’-intere.‘~;t, come forward. pivk your late enemies up and try to get‘ ;hom on their feet again. If we do not, we shall leave Europe .-hattererl, nml ‘.l](i‘- pznrzrilysis wliit-.li has -crept: over them will creep over our national life 1300." Something lms :Ilrezl«.ly been done towards the :IssiSl'llll('t‘ of .=\nst.ri:r. A (lt‘l\lliiEliloll of lentliilg l)ll.<iness men from Vienna has recently Visited Lonulon nntl .se::urerZl definite 11lI(l(,‘]‘i1:lklllQ.~‘ of’ t'0»()p(.‘.l‘:lfi(’)11 in re—est:\blislling' some of the most iniportnnt of those .~\u.<— irinn <'ntm-prise.~' that are now tln'entenerl. \\'it.h tli.‘s:'lstel'.