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HOW THE WORLD IS STRUGGLING THROUGH

TRAVELLER'S REVIEW OF CONDITIONS TO CANTON ROTARIANS

WARNING ABOUT GERMAN-POLISH QUESTIONS

Members of Canton Rotary Club, at the last meeting, aboard the .s. Taishan -heard a most interesting addreas en économie conditions by Mr. C. S. Petrie, who has recently being making a tour of Europe and America,

Mr. S. F. Chien was in the chair.

In the course of his address the speaker gave an interesting account of how things are changing in Russia and also issued i warning as to the tension between Poland and Germany,

RUSSIA AND THE FIVE YEAR PLAN

America Dominated by Economic nation, she has a profound respect

Problems.

for the French people. It is not so with Poland. She not only hates Poland as a nation, but has a con- Everyone tempt for the people. who is familiar with European affairs fooks for trouble eventually along the Polish-German frontier.

Bulgaria Has Excellent King, Bulgaria is not wall off, but she has an excellent King, one of the best rulers in Europo.

Mr. Petrie said: America during the past year has been dominated by economie problems. Americh did not expect the crisis. America suffered anex- pectedly by it. While the problems dominating American thought have been economic, the effect has been largely political, and I think the recent election in America was to

In Jugo-Slavia during the past a great extent econoraic,, but it was also the reaction of the people your we have seen a complete, col against a man who had never cap The dictatorship form of govern lapse of the parliamentary systera. tured their imagination. President Hoover has been unfortunate rightment is precarious The King is along in his approach to the strong, he has the army, with him, American public.

but there are many elements just All the relief measures that liave been under- waiting the right moment to rise

up, so it is not anfe. taken have been on behalf of ar ganized business, so that the aver age men in America felt that the President did not have their in- terests at heart, and it was inovit. able that ho should be replaced.

Russia Absorbed with Five-Year

Plan

Turkey is trying to build some- thing substantial out of chaos. She is making a little progress, but very slowly.

Western Europe.

In Western Europe, Italy, France, Germany and England, there has been change in Gov- erament in three out of four of these countries.

Russia during the past year has been vitally interested and absorb ed with her Five-years Plan and

In England wide changes have their effort toward increasing pro- taken place, and England feels duction. Russin to-day is a very confident. They are not much bet fastly changing society, Theirter of, but they feel better off. ideals of ten years ago are not

Anglo-Franch Fact. their ideals to-day at all. During No one seems to know exactly the past year they have emphasized what the Anglo-French pact is. the intellectual class at the expense | On being asked one

statesman of the worker, and it is evident said: "I do not know, Appar- that Russia has felt the need, with-ently there was this group of men in the last few years, of culture, working together, friendly and of an intellectual class that cannier, so they write a Pact, stating guide them and make some contri-how much they like each other and bution to the outlook of the mine. what gond fellows they are. After Internally Russia has been absorb they had agreed on it they invited ed with feeding and clothing her other nations to vone in, and tell immense population, and the build- what good follows they were. ing up of her intellectual glass: Everybody did, and everybody is which was ruthlessly destroyed at happy, so they have a new Anglo- the beginning of the Revolution. French Past."

J Problem of Inflation. Then there is the serious problem of inflation they will not admit. They say it is a shortage of goods. There is undoubtedly a shortage of goods, but if you go to the Bank with ar American gold dollar, you get less than two roubles for it. If you go out in the street anyone will give you thirty or forty for your American dollar. That means there is an inflation in Russia,

Money is very cheap. How they are going to deal with this problem no one knowa.

The Disarmament Conference at Geneva 1 like to think of na symphony in many flats. It started off with a blars of trumpots, these followed a minor key when they turned the conference over to the experts and it was very minor. We can leave a good mark on Lau sanne, a red mark for Genova and a cleor for. Germany.

Invasion of Manchuria

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In Asia the outstanding event, of course, was the invasion nl. Man- churin. I think the world immedi- ately reacted to Japan's action in Manchuria. In England, Ger- Poland and Germany, Then there are interesting. Polish many, Russin, everywhere, Garman relations. Nowhere in any hears that Japan has lost the sym- part of the world have I encoun-pathy and the respect of the aver lored ich hatred as I met with in

age man because of her action in Polainal. The Polish people are Manchuria. intense in their hatred and in their fear of Germany's coming back to claim her pre-war position. At the sanie time the Germans feel that their culture, their ideals and all the contributions that they made to East Prussia in building up a high type of civilization is now in the hands of an inferior people, and they are unhappy about it.

Another thing is that while Ger- many may dislike France

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Glancing at the world now, we can deduce une or two things. We see creeping over industry a paralysis all over the world. The existence of the League appears as u raft and only a raft on a very rough sea.

So the average citizen has a job on his hands today, it is his duty, I believe, to retain his courage and his ideals and to carry on. The way out is not clear, but the future is not hopeless..

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