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large proportion of the agricul- publication should be addressed to tural produce of the Danubian countries. But it insists in re- the Editor, and be accompanied by turn that they should take at

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The Danubian confederation at which Adolf Hitler aims-he dis- cussed it with. Admiral. Nicolas Horthy is not an economic ar- rangement like that of the Bri tish Empire. Under the latter, the Dominions can develop their own industries as they like, and are not cut off from trade with foreign countries. Under the former, the trade of the sub-

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Hong Kong, Friday, October 21, 1938 ordinate countries would be stereotyped and tightly bound: They would be drawn into the close economic sphere of a grea- ter Germany, and would be cut off from the rest of the world. The whole political struggle in Europe is better understood if Economic expansion in south-viewed against the background eastern Europe has been a main of German economic expansion. plank in Germany's policy for

half a century. Dr. Funk's tour

of Turkey and the Balkan States

shows that it is so more than ever

to-day. `Expansion is more vital Adventure now than before the World War, since Germany's exclusive policy

In buses and under bowler tends to restrict its exports else-hats, the love of adventure: still where. Therefore, it aims at ob-brightly burns. In a London taining a firm hold on the mar newspaper a young man, "bored kets of central and southeastern by the tedious monotony of a Europe. It has a unique oppor- civilised and altogether too tunity, for it has just achieved a steady existence," has recently. diplomatic triumph unprecedent-advertised for some exciting oc- ed in world history and it can cupation where good breeding is pose as the ordained instrument of more importance than mere for undoing some of the mistakes technical qualifications.. of the Peace Treaties.

Doubtless, this modern Percy Not the least of the evils form- Blakeney (a gentleman who, it ed in 1919 was the splitting up will be remembered, intervened of large economic units into in the French Revolution to pre- smaller units incapable of stand-vent himself from yawning) ing by themselves. Before the dreams of South Sea Islands," World War, Vienna was the finan-Ruritanian republics, and the cial clearing house and banking wilds of Asia. - But what, after centre for the Austro-Hungarian all, is wrong with London? Empire-that is to say, for Aus- "The man who is tired of Lon- tired tria, Hungary, and much of what don," said Dr. Johnson, "is is now Yugoslavia, Czecho- of life;" and certainly London is slovakia, and Rumania. Germany the home of great adventures. It and Austria side by side were was in Leicester Square that paving the way for great trade Stevenson met the Young Man routes leading southeast through with the Cream Tarta; it was in Macedonia to Turkey and Asia. a western suburb that Chester- The cutting up of the Austro-ton began that fantastic chase of Hungarian Empire under the the Man Who Was Thursday: Peace Treaties was, economical-while over the world-famous ly, and so long as economic na statue of Eros at the end of Pic- tionalism persisted. a disaster.cadilly Sir Hugh Walpole set the Trade was stiffed by economic alarms and excursions of "Above barriers. Austria long ago would the Dark Girous. dalekea ja have been ruined but for British | Yet perhaps London is not and American help.

what it was. One can no longer. Now Austria is absorbed in speak, as Charles Eamh did, of Germany and must look north the "sweet security of its ward, rather than eastward, for streets, for the coming of the any immediate expansion of its motor car has trade. But Germany, sceks to get But even this through Austria all that Austria timity fớn thì lost in the World War- € la man of the

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