GOERING’S NEW JOB

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1940, Page 5

GOERING’S NEW JOB

ORGANISATION OF GERMAN ECONOMY. . VIEWS OF BRITISH PAPERS. Marshal Goering’s return to the limelight as the new director of Germany’s economic policy is featured in the British Press, a radio message reports. "The Times" comments that the Nazi Government is worried over the financing of the war, and as the difficulties mount she is transferring the blame from one leader to another. It is fitting, says "The Times,” that the man who has so often boasted that Nazi Germany could withstand the British blockade should now be charged with the task of proving this. The inroads into German economic ■ vitality by the blockade and now the freezing over of the Danube River are . also referred to by “The Times.” Normally Germany received its supplies from the Balkans via the Mediterranean and the North Sea. This route, however, was closed by the blockade, and the freezing over of the Danube ' would throw a heavy burden on the already overworked railways of Central Europe. The "Manchester Guardian” adopts a different attitude. It warns its readers against underestimating the planned economy of Germany. She would have to turn the screw on tighter, and no one was better fitted for this task than Marshal Goering. But, says the paper, it would be dangerous to take comfort from Germany’s difficulties'. Her economy had been built on a war basis; that of Great Britain had not yet entirely reached that stage.