MR. ASQUITH'S POLICY
DARK INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
THE CLAIMS ON GERMANY,
(CNIT3D PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRianT.J
(iDSTKAJ lAN - NEW ZEALAND CAIJI.B ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 7th February
Mr. H. H. Asquith, speaking at Paisley, said that the international situation was dark and alarming. The.new frontiers of Central and Eastern Europe must necessarily be purely provisional. If the new States set up tariff barriers, it would be* a steady menace to future peace. All would agree that Germany should pay the largest sum possible as war damages, but it was more important to accelerate the restoration of the- normaJ economic life of Europe. It was a defect of the Peace Treaty that Germany's liability was nowhere defm&d. ,It was impossible for her to meet liabilities of that kind. The Austrian conditions were even more. severe. Germany and Austria were to start-the new world with. a millstone of unlimited indebtedness. This was not statesmanship ; it was not business common-sense; it was not a clean peace which would end-all war.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 34, 10 February 1920, Page 5
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