Whatever different [thought may think on the subject of reparation vis-i-vis of the newly announced prosperity programme for Germany, there can he not the slightest doubt that this game bid for improved conditions in the country will earn the von Papen Cabinet a great Jamount of world wide sympathy.
may be argued with some degree of plausibility that, if Ger aany can afford to embark lon @ programme of economic reconstruction involving the remission of taxation on so grand scale, she is able to pay more towards the liquidation of her Hiabilities arising out of the Great War; but that particular Jauestion having been dealt wi fat the Lausanne Conference it is probably just as well to consider what ig being done in the light lof conditions as they are now found. The facts of the present situation seem to be that there is a general impression gaining ground throughout the world that conditions are on the point. Jof changing for the better, and the sooner an impetus is given to that change the better for every-Jone concerned. The question, therefore, of whether the remissions made to Germany at the Lausanne Conference were Barger than they should have been, does not enter into a consideration of the effort which jis now being made to improve leon ditions in that country and only remains to await" with patience the outcome of the interesting experiment which is now being made.
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