| Show I Spread of Soviet System Over Western Europe I I Prevented by Germany By PROF M. M J J. J BONN Expert on Economics Berlin This is what hat has been achieved in the tilE ten years ears separating us from the Armistice 1 Germany has prevented the spread of the Soviet system over western western west west- ern Europe and given gi herself a democratic constitution strong enough to withstand attacks from Bolshevism or Fascism 2 After having baving passed through a financial crisis crisi of unheard of severity severity sever sever- ity Germany has hOos succeeded in balancing her budget restoring her currency currency cur cur- rency rebuilding her economic life Though greatly impoverished she he is paying punctually the heavy burden put on her under the Dawes plan 3 Germany has recovered her place plate among the great powers of Europe by taking her seat in the Council of the League of Nations She is the only great grat nation which has been disarmed and as such is ill in a apo po position to claim the moral leadership of the peaceful smaller people peoples of Europe 4 She has to achieve e two tao things The definite settlement of the reparation question and the evacuation of the Rhineland When the latter 1st- 1st ter is accomplished not accomplished not by bribing the French with extra payments or new controls but lut by the continuation of the understanding which began besa I at Locarno the Locarno-the the peace of western Europe i is safe |
