WORST WILL BE OVER WITHIN FEW MONTHS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 1

WORST WILL BE OVER WITHIN FEW MONTHS .

Key to Prosperity Lies in Economic Revival of Germany, Says Observer. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Received December 14, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 13. Mr J. L. Garvin, writing in the “ Observer,” prophesies that the worst will be over in a few months, though the New Year must open sternly for all the world. “ The key to the situation lies in Germany, whose hardships far exceed Britain s,” he says. “No people is worthier of the friendship of other nations and no government deserves more respect than Dr Bruning’s, which has shown the true stuff pf capable heroism. President von Hindenburg, without whom the position would be impossible, is as truly the father of his country as was Washington. There is no fear of civil war. Germany, as a matter of life or death, will maintain her political stability for six months. Nothing can prevent France’s claim to prolonged tribute collapsing before the world. A much older and surer way out is to cancel war debts and reparations, which depends upon America. It is useless giving oxygen to Germany when she is prostrate arid strangling her when she revives.”