GERMANY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 3

GERMANY

HER ECONOMIC NEEDS. “The lasting interests of European peace should prompt us, together with France and Russia, to enter into the discussion with Germany of her economic needs ina friendly attitude yet with open • eyes. Any atetmpt to understand her case must start from the perception of two governing facts: (1) She is unfortunate by comparison with the great imperial Powers, in that her industry has been developed out of all proportion to her territorial possessions, and cannot iff the present condition of the world find an assured market. (2) Faced with this problem, she has subordinated her whole national life to the ideal of self-sufficiency, which is nothing but a preparation for an eventual war of expansion. One may argue that it might be wise to satisfy in some degree her; demand for a colony or a mandate, because it is in part her neurotic suffering under thd stigma of an inferior status that has driven her to her present frenzv of self-as-sertion. Until her equal status is fully recognised she will not, it is urged, recover her sanity. But to encourage her to suppose that any colonial redistribution that is feasible can relieve in any significant measure either her exchange difficulties or her demand for raw materials and food-stuffs would be to foster a dangerous illusion.”—“New Statesman and the Nation.”