“VERY PRECARIOUS”

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

“VERY PRECARIOUS”

GERMANY’S ECONOMIC POSITION. “At bottom” observes the “Daily Herald,” “Germany’s economic position is to-day more precarious than in 1933. Thes'e is no sign of the genuine recovery that has come to freer countries. And for the German masses life to-day is incomparably more arduous than when Hitler began his rule. Their standard of living has fallen by the best estimates at least 30 per cent. He has brought them not the prosperity he promised, but new burdens and a deep suffering. Yet—the fact must be faced—they endure, and not altogether unwillingly. For though there is deep discontent, there is also resignation; not merly because revolt is hopeless, tut because of a feeling that they are making sacrifices for a national aim. He came to> power by playing upon sense of injured national pride. He holds power, and can only hold power, ty continuing to feed the feeling of ■restored greatness. And there, lies, for Europe, the great danger point. Can he continue, can he win further acceptance of both dictatorship and starvation without seeking new prestige by some reckless military adventure, by seeking to win ‘glory’ by using the formidable military machine he has created?”