REPARATIONS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 253, 7 December 1921, Page 2

REPARATIONS

Six , George Paisb, tho eminent lin* ancial expert, in & speech, last weelv declared that tlie Keparutions demanded from German?, even as 'invised at Spa, are impossible Mr, Churchill in a speech described tho idea of extracting £20,000,000,000 from the Germans as "U,e nonsensical froth of politicians and financiers." The New Zealand Tory editors follow on behind and a.grou that tho Versailles Treaty must ne revised. It is all very amusing. These gentry —we except Sir Georgo.. Paish, hecause he only repeats what lie has ha<? been saying from the start —hui~ Ed the Versailles Treaty as the last word in victorious statesmanship, land when anybody dared to appraise lit as a particularly dangerous f>xjpression of stupidity, which, if oporlated at all, would ruin the Allies as I certainly a R it would impoverish the Germans, lie was hooted down as a 'traitor and a disloyalist. The R.B.AI was just as had. Its general election questionaire marked down for opposition all who 'disputed the propriety of exacting reparationg indenißities, and it had an effect o£ handing over the bulk of the returned soldier vot o to a puck _of ignoraut jingoes who are now busily. renouncing these- fundamental , visions in tho Treaty. A perusal o\. Norm&n Angell's "The Great Illusion"" long be for© the war determined this paper's attitude towards tne whole question of indemnities, and now that this book's simple reasoning is working out in actual fact, and is even convincing those who scoffed and jeered at it, The Maorilantl Worker takes credit for having t>fcen THE ONLY PAPER IN NEW ZEALAND that, in season and out, has set its face' against this monstrous policy of theft and plunder. Some people are impervious to sense, except when the rough school of experience tears the scales from their eyes, and o*, Bueh as these are the "great statesmen" (Mr. Massey's signature is attached to the Treaty remember), and their newspaper hacks, who are only now learning .after three years on tragedy and suffering, that, in world of . iuternational trade