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REAT BRITAIN this week may add a new record to the galaxy already established in 1938, with the attempt to fly non-stop from Egypt to Aus- tralia.
Records crented in the year that is now rapidly drawing to its close have represented new The Wind has told me so... Barnabas von Geczy Orch. achievements in various bran- Kiss-Serenade (De Michell}
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IS HITLER SHORT
OF MONEY?
Here is a financial expert's unbiased answer-unbiased because this article was written before the Czech
ERMANY is to all
crisis arose.
WHEN Hiller starled like
momentum.
polley of credit infntion
weather.
Even in the most favourable circumst- ances home production cannot exceed 35 per cent, of total consump- tion, for the supply of suitable timber is now falling.
The production of synthetic petrol has been even less successful. Out- put of German synthetic petrol, How far has it succeeded? benzol, and lubricants increased from appearances immea- his plan was delightfully simple. He June that home supplies of food had in 1937, an excellent achievement. It was officially stated ir 830,000 tons in 1633 to 2,300,000 tons surably better off merely meant to give the trade of the been raised from 75 per cent. to 80 But here, also, owing to the sharp
country a powerful stimulus In the per cent. now than when Hitler came hope that the wheels
of requirements. This, rise in consumption, Imports had to would keep however, in quite an arbitrary figure, be increased over the same period turning afterwards under their own us the harvest depends entirely on the from 2,200,000 tons to 3.100,000 tons. into power in 1933.
He knew he had 0,000,000 unem- Morcover, In certain indispensable tion above, any, 3,000,000 tons will be And any increase in home produc- ployed mostly skilled workers, items, including fats, albumens and dimeult, if not impossible. It would magnificent industrial equipment, cattle fodder, home production is still involve the large stocks of raw materials-every- far below 80 per vent. In 1937, for amounts of capital, not only for erec- investment of huge
thing, In fact, except orders, -
example, fats and cattle fodder alone tion of oil-from-coal plants, but njen Therefore,
accounted for 25 per cent. of Ger- for the enlargement of the German if the State
provided the orders everything would be all many's total food imports.
coal mines, which are at present Offelally, indeed, It has now been working to capnelty. admitted that Germany will never be able to feed herself entirely, although bour. Coal miners are
Then there la the shortage of la- born, not no effort has been spared. By means made. of artificial fertilisers, crop rotation, employed en which to draw,
to un- and Germany has plant adaptation, cross-breeding, and
The new roads, buildings, factories, housing schemes, airports, and, of course, the vast expenditure on arms, all Indicate a state of wonderful prosperity.
The question will it last? Or Is the improved state of Germany merely the result of five years of unprecedented extravagance which has left the country more impoverish ed than ever?
QUESTION TIME
Among Hitler's demands wan
persons who were living in the Czech areas on October 28, 1918, or born there before that date, should be eligible to vote in the plebis. cite. Why this date?
At first sight it only sug- gests that the people Ilving in Czecho-Slovakia at the end of the war before the Republie was formed-should have a say In its future.
But the demand goes deeper than
nobody that. Actually knows exactly how many Ger mans were in what is now Czecho-Slovakin at that date. There was no cencun so that Bicy
would have to use the one made in 1910 when Czecho Slovakia was part of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, The 1910 figures reveal tho significance of Hitler's demand, for then the Germans number- ed 27.73 of the population. The Czechs
that Lese figures, compiled by the Ger- nans and Magyars of the old Empire, were cooked to the disadvantage of the Czechs and Slovaks.
my
Now the 1021 census in Czecho-Slovakia put the Ger- man population at 23.4 per ent: and the last census in 1930 showed that the Germans were 22.3 per cent, of the
of
population Czecho-Slovakia. So Hitler's demand (if it is based on the 1010 figure, the one avallable before only
October 1918) means that over 5 per cent. more Germans will vole in a
a plebiscite than are now living in Czecho-Slovakia,
Even ascu
ascuming that the extra
could 5 per cent.
that prove they were born or lved in Czecho-Slovakia before
1918. they would come from Ger- many, and the result would be. In cases where the Czecha have a small majority now, the influx would change them to German areas.
The modern and widespread pursuit of records is not invari- ably a desirable or an edifying practice: It sometimes degener- ates into a pointless display of endurance, as in the case of pole- sitters, "marathon dancers", people who push billiard balls along a street with their nose, to mention but a few; or it may display only eccentricity. Per- haps, indeed, it is cause for con- gratulation that there is not a greater variety of these at activity, of an activity pursued tempts, considering how widely not for a record, but for its own
the term "record" may bo aske.
atretched, in the fashion cele-
brated by the limerick that re-
lates how:
There was a young fellow
called Clover,
Who bowled Afteen widen in
an over,
Which has never been done, By a Parson's non,
Postscript for
Post-office
THY IS it necessary to close
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air mail in Hongkong twelve hours before the Imperial Air- ways' plancs depart? In Singa- poro, Late Fee boxes are pro- invided both at the post-offices and Airport. At the latter, mall'can Exploits that advance the be posted fifteen minutes before. bounds of possibility, or that add the plane doparts.
By a Friday in August
Dover.
to the sum of knowledge, need Fifty per cent. of the time it |no dofence; while as for records takos to get a lotter from a post- in connection with sport, ono ing box in Hongkong to the post may say that they are but the office in Singapore is taken up by incidental outcome of a rational handling delays in Hongkong!
right again.
But as the unemployed got to work they began, consuming more-more food, more clothing, more blcycles more rudlo sets, more cars and more cameras. So, as existing stocks were used up, Germany had largely to in- crease her imports of food and raw materials.
This would have been a healthy enough development if the 0,000,000 unemployed had been engaged un work of a reproductive nature. The exports of the goods they made would then have paid for the in- creased imports, and probably yield- ed a profit into the bargain.
UNFORTUNATELY,
how-
ever, the bulk of the cm- ployment was created an works of a non-productive character.
Even Dr. Schacht has yet to discover a method of bartering 100 miles of new concrete motor road for a few cargoes of wheat.
the use of electricity and machinery Another cnng about synthetic fuels 'on farms, Germany has succeeded in, is their very high cost. Imported wresting more per nere from her fuels can be had for a fraction of the naturally unfertilo soll than any price it the necessary foreign ex- other country in the world.
change is available.
But the limit of pro- ductivity has now been reached -- and the area under cultivation is de- creasing.
The fuel problem becomes more dificult daily owing to the develop- ment of aviation, the motorisation of farm machinery and the army, and the coming of the Strength through Joy cur, of which Hiller says there W be 7,000,000 on the roads within the next two or three years.
OWING to the laying out of A lot has been written about the workmen's colonies, new success of the German scientists in roads, motor highways, airports, producing a really good synthetic military parade grounds and forest rubber, known as buna. This sub- reservations, the area under culilva- stĺțule, however, costs six limes the tion has fallen during the past five price of the natural product. years by no less than 1,750,000 neres,
or 24 per cent, of the total,
The figures of iron ore production are particularly interesting since they reflect to some extent the German
rearmament programme.
In addition, the population of Ger- many is increasing. In the old Reich It rose from 80 millions in 1933 to 67.6-ion of Iron ore rose from 5,000,000 Between 1032 and 1937 consump- millions in 1937. And the problem tons to 29,000,000 tons. Over the has been made still more difficult same period home production was in-
Thus Germany's exports did not since the absorption of Austria, as creased from 1,300,000 tons to 8,500,- rise as fast as her Imports. In addi- that country has always been a heavy 000 tons, but imports rose from 3,- tion, unforeseen developments made importer of food,
It increasingly dimcult for Germany to sell her goods in the world's mar
kels.
For example, the persecution of the Jews, the purge of June 1934, and the harsh treatment of the Roman Catholics created a world-wide boy- coll of German products,
Hitler was therefore unable to pay for imported food and raw materials In the normal way. So he produced his Four Year Plan-designed make Germany self-supporting.
GRIN AND
ic
500,000 tons to 20,000,000 tons.
DESPITE
aimed at the production of synthetic Industriǝlly the Four Year Plan
substantial in- creases in home produc- materials to replace imported textile tion, therefore, Germany is more de- fibres, petrol, rubber and metals. pendent than ever on foreign sup- This part of the programme has ferial. The Anschluss will help, ar plics of this all-important raw ma- proved inadequate and costly. Austria possesses valuable deposite Between 1932 and 1037 home pro- production in 1937, although a new of high grade iron ore, but Austria's duction of textile fibres, natural and high record, amounted to 2,000,000 to 200,000 tons. Nevertheless the in- synthetic, was raised from 89,000 tons tons only. crease was only from 13 per cent. to 20 per cent. of total consumption, due largely to the sharp rise in demand following the absorption of the 0,000,- 000 unemployed.
BEAR IT
By Lichty
MOSKR
́ng đo hope there isn't a general war in Europe-I'm bafeotting enough `countries as it is!
At best it can be rais- ed to 4,000,000 tons, which will help but not solve the German iron ore problem.
Economically the Third Reich hat now reached a critical stage in its de- velopment. It rigid economy is en- forced now in the use of raw ma- ierials. It should bo possible to balance supply and demand world trade conditions improve.
uniil
Bui with raw material slocks and foreign exchange resources exhaust- ed, it is obviously Impossible to carry on if rearmament, monumental build- Ing, reconstruction of cities and the Intensive development of Austria oṛe- all to go forward simultaneously.
These schemes are no longer mere- ly a question of internal finance as they werb five years ago. The stage has been passed when anything can be gained by writing promissory- note.
TO-DAY foreign exchange.1
needed and can only be obinlned by a great expansion of ex- ports. Pspects of any such expan- sion are remote with world trade, and therefore potential markets for Ger- man goods, contracting,
Even when world demand does im- prove, it seems certain that current events will increase rather than diminish the existing prejudice against German products.
Germany is therefore in the post- ilon of the individual with lite or no capital whose expenditure is rising. and whose Income is falling,
One day - perlaps fairly soon-a-halt: wilk have to be called.