“NATIONAL INDUSTRY”
UNSOLVED GERMAN PROBLEM. There still remains the unanswered question how the Allies in the last war came to miss the great opportunity which seemed to offer at the end of it of establishing permanent peace, writes Mr J. A. Spender. Anything like a final answer is again beyond the scope of any contemporary writer. We have the general sense of a great many different causes, moral and material, economic and mechanical, working together to the same conclusion. We see the traditional British idea of conciliating a defeated enemy breaking down against the stubborn refusal of the French to disarm, and the enemy in the end neither conciliated nor disarmed. We see unemployment and discontent preparing the soil for the sowing of dragons’ teeth. But much more knowledge is needed before we can assess these various causes or assign to them their different degrees of importance. Yet some speculation is irresistible. Looking back. I see the German problem as dominating foreign affairs during not only the period covered by this book, but during the whole of my life, and the last war as only a first effort towards its solution. It is the problem of a great and powerful people acknowledging no territorial boundaries to their country, and no moral boundaries in their hearts and thoughts, using every advantage as a stepping-stone to a new aggression, and, after defeat, as after victory, continuing to make war their national industry. How shall life be made tolerable for their neighbours, or any permanent peace be secured for them in such conditions?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 2
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