The Archive · 1928

Germany's Splendid Recovery

Referring to Germany, he "Four years ago she had but emerged from an abyss of finan political and economic collapse. She has more than re-established her position as a great dustrial country. She is on the high road to recovering all that wealth and prosperity which four years ago she seemed to have irretrievably lost. She has re-entered the coun-oils of Euro "The Military Commission Control has been withdrawn from Germany and commercial treaties have been concluded between Germany and this country and Germany ud France. Her relations with her former enemies are, in fact, restored to a position of mutual frankness and understanding. She stands to-day as a groat country among equala—and she owes that largely to the genius of Dr. Stresemann, to whom every one in this hall will wich a speedy recovery to: healt In his appreciation of the League of Nations, Mr. Baldi "The League is helping in wa ways obvious, to that peace which we all desi e has to be made in effect by statesmen and statesmen are fallible instruments, but nothing but good comes from this constant meeting of statesmen in the League of Nation "They learn there exactly: what regard has to be paid to the peculiarities of.individual personalities and they can-realize there what all people want to realize, that to have vision to comprehend the effect of environment and tradition pon a man who comes from a leountry that is not your own."

Round Europe by Wireless Mentioning how at home he went round Europe on his wireless-sct, the Premier said: "When the mass of the people realize that in whatever country in Europe a man lives, he is a human being like himself, family and family life, with less-set like himself, with his services on Sunday, his dancing in the evening and his lectures, war presents a very different aspect. I Lelieve wireless is going to be one of the greatest bonds between the common people of the whole won and it is the common people who, in the long run, will decide whether there will be war or not."

Im regard to the Kellogg Pact, Mr. Baldwin declared: "It is so. tremendous a thing that few of us realize it and the result of its signa. ture will be nothing unless the nations, realizing to what they are committed, make up their is that their signatures shall be hon-Joured to the end of time.

"Every nation that signs that Pact has got to keep it before its mind whenever it examines its own armaments: whenever it prepares) estimates ofts own armaments, must realize what the "implications that Pact are. When much of the world that has signed that Pact realizes and believes in that Pact, then for the firat time will the na-tons be able to talk disarmament in the way that led us into that'

"Let us all to-night—and there are Tepresentatives of many great

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