Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-16
GERMANY CAN
PAY BIC DEBTS
Other Nations viii Trade With
Her, Declares Expert
WILL EXTEND HER CREDIT
America Has Been Supplying
Things Needed BY Countries
Of Europe for Three Years
BY RICHARD L

BY RICHARD SPILLANE
(American Economist, EVENING
NEWS Staff Writer on Business,
Finance and Economics.)
Because, sub--consciously, the
American ma appreciates the fact
for the last five years has been in
developing a capacity for needing
things and meanwhile America has
been busy on an intensive develop
ment for supplying things that AM
erica has come to think Germany,
which has been bottled up all this
time, was going to be a wonderful
buyer in this country.
Germany is one Of the most de-
pendent nations of the earth. She
does not raise enough meat, grain,
fruits or vegetables to feed herself
or has she the mineral or agricul-
tural to keep her mills and
factories fully employed yet h was
in a fair way to control much of the
trade of the world when, foolishly,
she precipitated the great war n
wrecked all her structure so carefully
constructed. The lesson of the war
has not been lost On the Germans.
For the last year-ever since the Of
fensive that for a second time put
the Germans at the Marine failed
the Germans have been planning on
new lines but, nevertheless. as ambi-
tious as those of former days.
One of the most sorrowful revela-
tons Germany had was in regard to
America. She had thought the Ger
man-American was heart and soul
for Germany. Every test, every in
quiry before the war had supported
this idea. And the Communication,
broadly speaking, was with Germany
so long as Germany vas at war with
England and France.
But.
The but came to flower when we
entered the war. Then the vast ma
jority of German-Americans dropped
the German, dropped the hyphen and
stood forth as loyal Americans.
Failed Utterly in h United States
And only in the United States did
the Germans fail completely in this
undertaking. The reason for their
failure was that the Americans are
an assimilatiye people. In other
countries to which Germans emil
grated they remained Germans. In
the United States. when the supreme
test came, they proved to be Ameri-
cans
This has forced Germany in her
present situation, to reconstruct her
world view. As a manufacturing ma
ton she must draw her raw material
from all quarters of the globe. but as
a selling nation she must develop
markets to replace those h has lost.
She has lost a large market in the
United States. She has lost he trade
she had in Africa, Switzerland, Bel
GUM, France and, possibly, Spain
will be most vigorous competitors
than they were before. Therefore
Germany sees her field in her neigh
bors to the east and south principal
ly and, overseas, in Latin-America
and the far east. In Latin-America
the German c~olonist remained Ger
man. In the FAR east China looms
up as a big prospect.
1t can be accepted as a certainty
that Germany will buy nothing in
America except to meet her most
pressing necessities. In banking, in
Insurance., in transportation facilities
and in prestige Germany has declined
SO much in relation to the United
States that she sees no prospect OF
restoration for years.
But, while she feels h was de-
ceived in the United States or was
deceived by the United States, she
has been planning to control abso-
1utely a great market in which the
United States was developing q con-
siderable business. That is Russia.
Turns Toward Other Countries.
Many articles which Germany for
merly obtained in America she hopes
to gel from Turkey, the Balkans and
from Russia-principally Russia. All
through the war Germany has been
working to that end. The Russian idea
now is the big n in the German
mind. Calmly, deliberately n COM
~prehensively the Germans ave work
ed for the disorganization n dis
memberment of the Russian empire in
order to control Russia. The spread of
Bolsheyism has been promoted by
Germany, directed by Germany and
financed by Germany with the pur-
pose of bringing Russia within the in
fuence of Germany. !.
One of the cardinal weaknesses OF
the British, the French and the Amer
leans is that they have done nothing
to combat the work OF Germany in
this direction.
1t began long before the war and
has been speeded by the war. Russia
is speckled with German colonies. The
German in Russia remains German
and spreads German thought. The
business of Russia has been appro-
priated more and more by Germany.
German students were obliged to
study the Russian language n go
into Russia to a%cquaint themselves
with the people and their customs.
The n possibilities OF the
empire were appraised, not for the
benefit of Russia, but for the profit
of Germany.
Hope for Full Control of Russia.
Socially, financially, politically, in
dustrially and commercially the Ger
mans have planned in relation to Rus
STA and ultimately they hope for phys
ical control of the vast empire with
its illimitable resources, its nearly
200, 00O, 900 inhabitants, IS per cent
of whom are il~literate, and it's posi-
bilities of enriching and restoring Ger
many to it's former power and great
ness.
1t is through the exploitation OF
Russia that Germany hopes to be re-
Iieved of her hitherto dependence
Through improving the farms OF u
STA she sees the foods she must nave,
the wheat, the meat, and the rats.
From the forests she looks for the
lumber which heretofore she got else
where. From the Caucasus she hopes
for cotton. From the Balkans and
Turkey in Asia she wants copper
From the Ural range she will draw
many metals.
And meanwhile she sees the big
market Russia, with its many score
millions, offers.
Not only the amount of Germany's
trade with America but the amount
of Russia's trade with America de-
ponds on how Germany's plans re-
garding Russia work out.
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