The complete clarification of the Jewish question in Germany and the solution of the financial difficulties of the Reich, are the two most important problems of the Reich Government, and on the overcoming of these two problems depends the fate and the future of Germany, declared Victor F. Ridder, president of the German-American Conference, speaking Monday before the delegates of the United German Associations.
“In the next three or four months, it will be decided whether Germany will become within the next ten years the strongest country in Europe or whether it should expect worse times than the ten post-war years,” Mr. Ridder stated. “The recent speech of the chancellor has already proven that the German Government has realized the necessity of cooperation with other nations. If Germany succeeds in paying the private debts, then a glorious future for the Reich is assured.
“Judging from the last information I received from Germany, the Jewish question will also come to a solution in the next months. This solution must be not only an internal one but one that must consider the bad feelings which measures against the Jews in Germany have caused in the outside world. If this second difficulty is overcome, then nothing can prevent a glorious development of Germany in the next ten years.”
Mr. Ridder concluded his speech with the remark: “We must first of all remember that the decisions of the German government cannot be considered only by the interests of the 600,000 Jews, but also by the economic existence and future of a population of sixty millions.”
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