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GERMANY TO-DAY. THE REIGN OF THE PROFITEER
SPENDING AND SPECULATION,
(FROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE
LONDON MORNING POST."]'\"
Muxien, March 17th.
SED,
Bolshevism So, at least, I am told. I Im also told that this means Bolshevism in France and England also, though I don't quito see why should
Meanwhile, as I said, they are manag or most of them are. If you ask me
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can only say I have put the same question endlessly myself, and got no in- telligibe auswer." They cannot a live off the stranger, though the stranger, who ha no certainty that the enormous The other night I stepped out on the
extra platform at Munich after an eighteen charges pild on his unhappy shoulders ever months absence. In the train the talk bacts that many of them de.
reach the proper authority, ruefully sus all be about the great now works the
That Bavarians are busy on-couls, sehersisipal tax of 45 per cent, my room, for example-what is to prevent mine host from entering me in his books as a Cer-
for luring the Alps and harnessing riven and devoting the tax to his fine new
especially the huge power station at Walchen-So, away up in the mountains towards Innsbruck--an undertaking, the laadly changed me 38,000 marks for a ldings? And the hote! porter. who told me, capable of supplying light and theatre ticket for which the Germans pay power to the whole of Bavaria. Te is all 4,000-he must be making a pretty to make up for the coal we have taken living; if that is all strangers are as from them. One was rather reminded of meek and mild 2 I am. And the young
bankrupt who its feasting at iL palatial restaurant
woman with the silk stockings in the bonk while his creditorshop who sold meagrely satisfy their hunger in an A.B. Buddenbrooks at double the German price
пар Thonung Mann' However. I kept my thought to myself am I quite sure that she handed on the Safer. After all, we did take their carcharge to her employ or her employ we cannot decently object.
er. if he got it, to the publisher-or the No. I am not
THE OCEAN OF MARXA
I took my sent in the bus-for conserve publisher to the State tive Mauch still maintains the good oldure; but sure I am that this whole custom of the hut l-omnibus--and drove to franger-exploiting system is very bad for my hotel. Hore all was changed. They their morals. have taken in adjacent buildings and in- creased their accommodation, so I heard. by 100 bed rooms. They have scooped unt the comfortable old interior-I had glimpse of halls, kunges, places to Ford er han one's cont in, stretching in every direction all in the style that appeals to million nirem. with marble floor, mahogany panelling, and plate glass complete started wondering, as I waited, why lionaires are so fond of mahogany and marble, but my sporulations were cut short by anxiety. The whole imposing building,
culties about allotting me a room.. it appeared. was packed: there were diff
TOWERING PRICES.
The
They are swimming in a billowing coun As for the rest, they live as they can. of marks: those that have not the art go ader, but naturally they all try to learn heart. They spalate; they profter. said a minute ago that I hul gran no profits, but the truth seems to be that they all, so far as in them lies, play the profiteer. The mark may rigs ar the mark muy fall, but priesa, rise eternalle, workman
with his manufactures, the manufacturers with his labour, the consumer with what he buys and does not consume. I walk d into a garage the ethor day; it was full of cars, all new, and of them had been out on the road. But the sent told me that not a single car was for sale; they had all been sold months go, to people who did not want them, but were holding them up in the sure hope of making a profit on them.
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The prices, too, as I discovered when last I got nue, were as imposing as the building. I must pay 40,000 marks a night plus a town-tax of 45 per went.altogether 33,000 marks. That was in my capacity of foreigner; natives, of course, are charged quite a different rate. I had come herr feeling moderately sorry for the Germans. peasant. He has long since cleared off in Imokiest, and most unscrupulous, la Bu bat no one likes being done, and my feel- ings began to undergo a perceptible refri for oxco sureeding in doing his brother paper marks, the leans he got in gold, thus geration. Still, if it be true that foreigns of the towns. He so langer ces his staff ers, taking advantage of the exclung to market: if you want it you must go have bought up a quarter of the houses in ad fetch it; and when you go he asks what Munich I suppose one mustn't squen!. he likes for it an egg costs sixty,
Next morning, needing money-there hundred, one hundred and fifty marks, was a fortnight'a permis de séjour to pay, according to the eagerness you show to be which costs 105,000 marks-I went out income its possessor. His milk. instead of search of a bank I had known. I could forwarding into the towns to feet the hardly find it. My banker had pulled babies, he turns into something lasting down his bank and built a greater. Nor. when I found it, could I get my business despatched. The place was crowded to the doors, people of all ages and both sexes were besieging the counters, studying as they struggled copies of the Berliner Horen-Berichte. Whoever else may be suffering in Germany, like at least are doing a roaring trade. It took me a full hour, atanding doing penance in a queue, te cash my modest cheque. In the cal
revived a handle of notre so large that I was bliged to ask for a bit of paper to wrap them in. The exchange, that day, was 100.000. When I was bere last it was 500, and (for my sins) I had left some £10
in the bank
SIONS OF PROSPERITT.
I walked out into the streets. New buildings, mostly new banks, had sprung up everywhere. I looked for traces of penury, and saw, as I thought. nothing but well-dressryl-dressed, that is, warmly and Everybody seemed well-fed and comfortably, in clothes for the most part now. The antiquity shops were full of beautiful and valuable ubjects, the book sellers of elaborately-bound illustrated works Prices, of course were fearful: doubled, trebled, decupled, to the foreigner; but even to Germans, as they told me, past all bearing. Yet rebody seemed is whit the worse. On the whok, they seemed to Le getting on at least as comfortably as we are at home. I did not meet a single brggar. Begging, perhaps, is forbidden but I did not see a single pinched face, or a single threadbare rat. I tried to get a ticket for the Opera-sold out a week ago: for a Max Reger concert-ditio,
Charo
It is all very puzzling. The German theory is that it is Schein-blute, an illusion of prosperity, nothing real about it, and the people I see in the streets and res taurants are profiteers; or they foreigners; or they are blazing away their money because otherwise it melts in their hands as they hold it. But stone and limo. and new suits of clothes are tangible reali ties, not metaphysical entities. "And the people I see do not seem profiteers; I miss the well-known signs the length of the faus-like ears, the diamonds wreathing unwashed fingers. Nor are they foreigners, nor (so far can judge by their locks) giddy spendthrifts They are simply ardi. nary Germans, leading their ordinary life. I am nat criticising, or bhuing, or snoering: 1 am trying, and Tailing, to understand.
EXPECTING A CRASH,
nose
It is, of course, an abominably, harassed life. Caro sits behind the German hors man-care for the present, worse care for the future. Just cast your mind forward a year or so, to that approaching day when, say, a Labour Government assume office in England and starts messing about w things; and our pound, so trusty and true, dwindles until firm it will not buy a mutton-chop, thơm not a loaf of bread, them not even box of matches, and still con- tinues dwindling; and we all acquire the sensation that the sane, solid, substantial ground beneath our feet has turned into squagmir threatening to engulf us, or rather (to be more exact) that it in a thin ice crust, momentarily becoming thinner, already in place almost worn through, and that beneath it are the Firs of Holl, and the littlo red Bolshevist demons, ready with their prongs to stick us and carry us wriggling to our appointed gridd, That is how the Germans are feeling to-day. I am thinking at the moment of their money, but I have a side glanes on the Ruhr Everyone is convinced a crash is coming, one way or another. Se far they are managing. But Russia is working constant, ly and obstinately, And if prices go on rising and money falling, if real hardship comca, if. the moment arrives when it is impossible. in spite of the printing proves; to pay the workmen enough wages to buy food with, then Germany will go down in
such as butter or cheese, and send it--ha or the accapareur who buys it up into the cupied districts, where they got priore beyond their wildest dreams.
THE HATED PEASANT. The rest of Germany is meanwhile suh- cribing millions for the relief of those
accupied districts, thus increasing their purchasing power, and the peasant avarice, and the scarcity at home. It would be funny if it were not pitiful. And
at the moment, the peasant is (barring
Poincaré the most hated ma Germany, whose capacities in the way of hatred are well known. But he is merely anxaggerated sample of his follow- countrymen, They al
profiteer. They
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have
tu, or starvé Some days ago," it is. rumoured, the Bavarian Minister of the Interior sum- moned to his Hillar the man, you know, who is going prearece the Kreat Herr
Italy, and more also. The Minister ex- to do for Germany what Mussolini hd for plained that the Government were anxious as anybody to suppress the pro fiteer, and begged the would-be Tribune to Hang the lot," said Hitler in his best say frankly what he wanted them to do, Mussolini manner. The Minister pointed cut that this was hardly passible; there were big profiteers and small profiteers, and justice would be indeed blind if th failed to distinguish betwren Hitler thereupon proposed that the big ene should be hanged and the rest flogged more or less, in nicely calculated scientific proportion to the measure of their inquity. The Minister pandered. "And how exact Is. Mr. Hitler, do you define a profiteer!" Hiler, not a very collapsible person, collapsed.
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