CENTRAL EUROPE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17739, 28 March 1932, Page 10

CENTRAL EUROPE

STRAITS OF THE UNEMPLOYED

SYDNEY, March 9,

Pastor C. Tl. Watson, formerly of Australia, and now world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Conference, writing oTi January 14 from Darmstadt, Germany, to the Australasian Union Conference office at Wnhroonga,

| “The countries of Central Europe are really in terrisglc straits. Germany is on the edge of desperation. It is seething with Communism and it. is hard to say what lengths they may go to if driven too far. lam now making ' a visit, to each of our union confer- . ences i speaking to large eongragations. Many of these poor people are out of work. In Went Germany, which I left 1 yesterday, there are churches in which ! not one member lias employment.

I “I fear that the conditions are not |to be improved in the immediate future. It is impossible to lie here in Europe and see what is now happening and believe in any quick ‘comeback’ from such widespread confusion, ■ and fear, and distrust. One cannot ! fail to see that the foundation upon .which national life and international i exchange ami co-operation have depended is almost entirely gone. Every - ; where new and almost wholly untruste.l forces are ready to be accepted by people who in desperation are willing i to give anything that is different a i chance in the Hope that the chance will bring them sonic relief. Surely ‘perilous times’ have come.”