Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-23
GERMANY HOPES FOR AID
FROM LEAGUE OF NATIONS
sihce Defeat Came, Toutons Have
Feared Economic War
Would Follow.
INCONSISTENCY IN WAR TINES
thinking Alone of Victory, Huns
Once Planned Securing Most Fa-
forcd Nation Treatment From All
World.
ny a DIPLOMATS Corrc.pondcnt.

Dlplomntlc Correspondent.
LoNDON. December 20. - Germans
are terribly afraid OF an economic war.
ihcir economic future looks to them
r rs both as regards supplies OF
raw materials and the securing OF mar
sets for their manufactures. The be-
iici That they could bargain for raw
products has broken down. and the
accepted solution Of all difficulties, IA
, I,C.ori gus peace treaty. has broken
Few, ever really believed tina, the
Near East could supply the loss OF
overseas materials and markets. and
'neir grasp. Consequently they have
1iu,chcd at the suggestion of new
way or salvation as drowning man
clutches at a straw, and all the peace
b!-agreemcnt parties, and one most
important section of the. jingoes. are
now falling over each other in an eff
lions AZ the only real solution OF their
economic troubles. According to this
ne world has ever planned, is to be
degraded into IL relief society for dis
tressed Germans.
Two lines or thought coalcsce in the
new German plan-the political league
"nd an international solution OF Ger
many's. economic problems. The his
began apparently with an article by
mo progressive deputy Herr Georg
Of me TO- is tst
The "aJ to carry out the Reichstag
resolution OF no economic war (July
tional tribunal, which should gmaran-
tee 10 every ono in every country
complete freedom Of economic activ-
tons to which his solution should ap-
ply. but did not include provision for
raw materials.
No0TED AT HAMBURG
CONFERENCE IN 1917
This idea was mooted at the Ham
conference November
10 and 16. 1917. when Herr Huber
mann. OF the Hamburg -Amerika line.
for the control of raw materials would
be valuable, and DR.. Kovacs. director
OF Adr!atic line. said that the idea OF
International control and distribution
Of the raw material still availa bic
after the war deserved consideration.
The next suggestion came from pro-
lessor Won SchulZe -Gacvcrnitz Speak
Ing in the Rc:chstaS at the beginning
Of May. he said IL would he TO the in
terest Of Germans to declare their
readiness TO organize an International
authority that would be charged with
securing honest observance OF the
os;-tavored- nation rule. he assuming.
tho securing OF general most favored
nation treatment was one OF Germany's
she would. thanks to the military posi-
lion. be able to secure IL, That he
rad ,ceens!y been advocating he fui!.
est Mittel curopa customs union did not
trouble the professor
The way was now prepared Tor DR..
DcrnburE's proposal. made on May la.
last. In the Vienna Ncuc Frcic Presse
for an international distribution COM
miss. on which should put the whole
world on rations OF raw materials
every country hcinE induced. or IL
necessary compelled, TO deliver large
quantities OF raw materials for distri-
button by the commission 10 all coun-
tries. according 10 quotas TO he fixed
he called IL "a league OF nations for
supplying tho world with the raw ma
tcrial il needs" How the commission
was 10 coercc rccalcitrants he did not
explain: presumably victorious Ger
many was to arrange that in the peace
treaty.