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In an article in the current number of The Scandinarias (a commercial and financial review.published in English ab Copenhagen), Dr. L. V. Birck, Professor of Economic in the University of Copen hagen, says -
Germany is really not so poor as Pro fessor Keynes makes out, but the real German people is even worse off than he believes Every time the German negotia tors go abroad they point to the poorness of these truly poor people, but they do not mention that Germany's wealth is owned. and controlled by a steadily decreasing number of individuals As long as the rich inner circle the high 6nance and the heavy industry-owns, let us say, two hundred to fvo hundred million sterling call money-abroad, it is interest- cd in a high quotation of sterling. The misery of the Gorman people and Govern ment this inner circle turns to its own credit...
I have asked several German business men what they do with their big profts Some of them are honest, enough to admit that the individual gain of their export ir banked abroad to their credit. Others;
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Ona day this will be over. The interest of the German upper class ia as yet the continued depression of the mark, but when the German high finance deems the reconstruction of the plants of Germany investors in marks have got fired and sold to have been achieved, and the foreign out their marks for next to nothing, and when Earope has got so tired of the re- paration question that Germany can reach a more favourable understanding-and for most statesmen and financiers the reparation question has already become a nightmare, which they are itching to get off their chest at any coat-then, and first then will the financiers of Germany turu the tables buy back from abroad the mark, and from that mouisat we shall see the German mark climb upwards, passing the value of one American eent, k
Now you will understand why M Morgan on behalf of the American owners of mark, insisted that part of the revenue Joan should be employed in rising the value of the mark and reducing the note issue. And you will further understand that any sane German financier simply had to refuse Mr. Morgan's kind offer. Time has not yet come the German gamo 18 a game of patience! Who is able to hold cut longer than the other follow Mr. Morgan and his American investors, or Mr. Stinnes and his financiers?
Germany has not learned enough from the war. But one lesson she has taken in --the lesson of patience. In that game she is surpassed by no one,
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From The Times:-M. Vandervelde and the other Socialists representing the Second International, who undertook to defend the Socialist revolutionaries now on trial in Moscow, have abandoned the attempt and are now returning to their homes. Throngh the indignities to which they have been sub- jected ever since they arrived in Moscow, through their treatment in a Court is which they were not even allowed to consult their clients, they have discovered that the so-called trial is nothing more than an insulting and deliberately staged, farce. Ever since, shortly before Genoa, the
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mand that they should establish legality and secure to accused persous the protec tion of proper Courts of justice, they have been demonstratively arranging mock trials, as though for the express purpose of dis- The Jubilee conference of the National playing their contempt for justice. Firat Union of Railwaymen was opened at of all, thirty-two priests were haled be Bradford, on July 3rd. In the course of fore. Bolshevist Court in Moscow and his presidential address, Mr. March treated, in the presence of large banks declared that nothing short of the crowd, as objects of violently anti-public ownership of the transport ser Christian propaganda In the end five of vices of the country would satisfy mem them were shot. Now a large number of bers of the anion and the advanced think- Socialist revolutionaries have been dragged ing section of the public. on to the scene and are being subjected
to a noisy process that is a defiance of all
forms of legal trial. The foreigners who a mock trial. Why are these particular in- came to defend the prisoners have dividuals singled out to make a Bolbevist been insulted in the streets of Moscow, holiday? There is no progress toward violently attacked in the Soviet Prees, and legality in this, no hint of that immunity browbeaten in the Court. Their speeches and impartinuity which has been demanded were misinterpreted, they were kept under as a condition of foreign aid to Russia, close guard, and prevented from consult All these noisy, and cynical displays have ing with Russian colleagues and friends politcal purpose. They are like the Finally, a heavy bill for the expanses of their beating of tom-toms in the hour of calamity, maintenance was contemptuorly flung in They are meant to divert attention from the their face. All this after they had received increasing gravity of the situation of the A definite promise from Radek in Berlin, Bolshevists. The Sorial Government failed first. the accused Socialists would not be at Genoa. The prospects of The Hague are condemned to death; secondly, that full very dim. In spite of the "new economic liberty of defence would be permitted policy," the resources of the Soviet Govern
Why have the Bolshevista taken auchment are almost exhausted, and the pairs to demonstrate, to the world, and fertile Bolshevist mind is bord par to it particularly to the Labour organizations of to discover some new device Lenin w Western Europe, their contempt for or seriously ill, and his lenterante are dinary justice? The Boolist revolution watching one another suspicionsly in an- aries have been accused of various acte tipation of the troubled days that are subversive of Boviet authority. Hundreds close at hand. At this critical moment the of Socialists, and non-Socialists have been Bolshevists are making strenuous efforte sommarily shot by the Bolshevists on to conceal their plight. That is the mean- such charges and on no charpelling of all this slamour of so-called “trini. Thousands of meg nit women are now Then who may be inclined, for political confined in filthy prisons and concontritisu camps, without knowing but the at puged of, and without the prospect even (Continued at fool of next column)
ir laziness, reasons, to pin their faith to the word of the Bolshevista should take ring that the risk in so doing was never peter than it is dow.
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