DARK EUROPE.
; MR. ASQUItH'S WARNING* ' 'AUSTRO-GERMAN DEBTS< By Teleirraph.—Press Assn.=-Copy»lgaq Received Feb. 9, 11.40 p.m..' * London, Feb. T."( Mr, Asquitli, at Paisley, said the ift? ternational situation was dark ■ and 'alarming. The new frontier* of Central jj and Eastern Europe must necessarily bs purely provisional. If the new States set up tariff barriers they would be a steady menace to future peace. All agree that Germany should pay the largest sum possible as war damages, but it was ; more important to accelerate the restoration of the normal economic life of Europe. It was a defect of the Treaty •that flermany's liability was nowhere denned. It was impossible for her ta meet rhVbilities of that kind. The Austrian conditions were) even DiofeTSevefe. Germany and Austria wero to start a new world with a millatdne of tmliultcd indebtedness. This was not [statesmanship, and it was not business tonimon-sense. It was not a clean peace which .would; end all war.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1920, Page 5
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157DARK EUROPE. Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1920, Page 5
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