GERMANY'S ATTITUDE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 8

GERMANY'S ATTITUDE.

WILL NOT SUBMIT TO DICTATION.

MORAL OBLIGATIONS

Received Feb. 14, 9.45 a.m. BERLIN, Feb. 12

Herr Wilts, : Mimster for Finance, in addressing the Chamber of Commerce, said the German Government was not going to London to submit to dictation. They were prepared to> do, their utmost, because they felt that they were morally obliged to assist in reconstruction, and therefore would submit reparation i proposals to the London conference. I The nation must realise that payment must be made, not from the national wealth, but" from work, and it therefore, was questionable whether all the fruits of the revolution oould be safeguarded. It' was- impossible for America to keep aloof when the world's economic force was, assembled at the conference, because the decisions'would remain in the region of theories unleßS the whole economic wojld'oo-operated.