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Show Europe's Condition Far from Economic Brussels What shall one say of the existing situation in Europe, economic, political and phychological ? What is 'he condition and what the state of mind of the people alike of the great and the smaller states nearly eight years after the close of the great con-'lict? con-'lict? The first obvious comment is thf't in all countries, great and sma'l, belligerent and neutral in 1914-18. the economic fact dominates ail others. Xir is it less clear that speaking generally gen-erally the condition of Europe of the moment, is. without being desperate, urm'stakably depressing. Of the great powers, leaving Russia aside as the great enigma, as ths monstrous "X" about which no one knows much, Germany Ger-many is the single nation which hm measurably liquidated the struggle, both economically and politically." |