GERMAN POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1921, Page 5

GERMAN POLICY.

HOME AND FOREIGN. QUESTION OF SILESIA, DEATH TO MILITARISM, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, June 21. Herr Wirth, addressing the nonSocialist trade unions, declared himself sincerely determined to prosecute a policy of "straightforwardness abroad and genuine democracy at home. Germany was determined that the fate of Upp.«.‘ Silesia should be determined in accordance with the expression of the democratic will of the population. He questioned whether any of the Allied Powers could ignore the plebiscite. He said the wounds of Europe would never close if democratic freedom and self-determination were impaired. Upper Silesia would become a centre of conflagration for a century if German rights were injured, and Europe would never get over a second catastrophe without the collapse of civilisation. Every nation must speedily take up the idea of reducing to a minimum unproductive outlay on militarism. “The cry goes out to the workers of all lands to see that what Germany pays is employed for the benefit of the workers of the whole suffering world.” Herr Wirth announced that Germany’s revenue last year amounted to over 45,000 millions of marks.