THE TIME BETWEEN
FROM VERSAILLES TO DANZIG. By Claud Golding. Allen and Unwin. This is a lively though provocative account of the events in Europe that separated two great wars. Mr. Golding asserts that "from the moment that the peace pen was put to paper, Germany
was determined to repudiate her signature." That may be true-most of us in fact believe it-but his arguments are neither convincing nor consistent. He takes, for example, the usual view that Germany could have paid the total reparations, but "took good care to ‘cook’ the books to make it appear that she could not." He insists that the German
Government did not tax the wealthy industrialists enough, conveniently overlooking the fact that internal taxation does not provide the means to pay external debts, Mr. Golding’s choice of President Roosevelt as leader of the peace conference after the present war, is also surprising in view of his complaint that President Wilson "did not know Europe or understand Germany.’ But if Mr. Golding is often provocative-one feels deliberately provocative-he is never dull, and his account of Hitler’s rise to power and the Reichstag fire is as interesting as any we have seen.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 11
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196THE TIME BETWEEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 11
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