TRADE WITH POLAND ADVOCATED

Southland Times, Issue 23390, 23 December 1937, Page 6

TRADE WITH POLAND ADVOCATED

SKINS AND WOOL BOUGHT FROM DOMINION (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 22. Having visited, since he left New Zealand in May, the United States, England, France, Belgium, Poland, Cechoslovakia and Russia, Mr -N. Scheinwald, a wool buyer, a Pole who is now a naturalized New Zealander, hopes to assist in promoting trade between the Dominion and Poland. He says that Poland already buys a lot of skins and wool from New Zealand, but that there is little trade in the other direction.

Discussing conditions in Europe, Mr Scheinwald said that the Russian people lived in hope but the standard of living was poor compared with that in Britain. Conditions in Germany were bad. The country was suffering from the lack of raw materials and everywhere the people wore military clothes. German policy was advancing absolutely to war. He declared that militarism also was noticeable everywhere in Italy and that the standard of life was low.

He travelled 6500 miles by car on the Continent, motoring everywhere but in Russia. “There it is a risky business,” he said, “because road travel is not organized and there is difficulty in getting regular supplies of petrol and having repairs made if needed.” The anti-Semitic harshness of Germany and other mid-European countries would react unfavourably against them, he thought. In Germany the repression of the Jews was the reflection of the moral and social condition of the country. The nation was in serious trouble and the masses were bluffed into believing that the Jews were responsible.