DARK AND ALARMING
INTERNATIONAL SITUATION,
MR. ASQTJITH'S VIEW. CENTRAL POWERS' MILLSTONE (By Cable.—Press .Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.43 a.m.) • LOXDOX, February 9. Mr. Asqulth, speaking at Paisley, said that the International situation was dark and alarming. The new frontiers of Central-Eastern Europe must necesearily be purely provisional. If the new States set up tariff barriers there would be a steady menace to future peace. All agreed 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 Peace Treaty that Germany's liability was nowhere defined. It was impossible for her to meet liabilities of that kind. The Austrian conditions were even more severe. Germany and Austria were to start a new world with a millstone of unlimited indebtedness. This was not statesmanship, not bußiness, and not eommonsense. It was not the clean peace which would end all war. Mr. Asquith added that £2,000,000,000 was about the outside that could be pot from Germany. He was prepared to write off Britain's share as a bad debt.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 35, 10 February 1920, Page 5
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