Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1923, Page 3

— OOR STILL OPEN TOEXPERT PARLEY Versailles Treaty Gives Ma- jority Right to Take Action. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The door is still open for a confer- ence of experts to examine Germany’s capacity to pay reparations, but the question that the United States and Great Eritain now must decide 1s Whether the parley shall be held with- cut the* participation of France. Italy, Belgium, the United ana at Britain are in alone dlssents. Under the Yersallles treaty it is within the ] power of the reparations commission to employ experts or take any action ccept actually to indebtedness hes contends the pur- Quiry was merely ad- powers that have ac- servation the Brit- ¢ reparations com- to examine ad without France if course might not ould be supposed e then the in- tates accord. without posal that mission apy the questio quiry ¢ ceptance by sponsibility c the for of French of Te- the findings of the commission experts. What Pre- micr Poincare has wanted has been freedom of action, so that he would not appear to be committing Frange « reduction of German debt. is not & part of the inquiry ber rights will be absolutely sa guarded and the Poincare govern- ment saved from internal political at- tack. May Query United States. reat Britain aw such a situa- tion as has developed, hecausé in the criginal note to the United question was a American government” would partici- te in an inquiry if there happened be @ lack of unanimity on the part as to the e United Stat sh_to anticipat, A confere urally did not w y dissensions emto Le threatening & course of action predicated on & di- vision of the allles, so the answer to that point was consideration. It now hecomes per Eovernment of n_whether ent for the at Britain to ask the United SPECIAL NO' . Philadelphia #nd W mington. Was} TRA WILL RE or forward for n.w T 18 HERE jon of partne Glycofredes ara duct of tie Hotel Harris Pharmacy and Pharmacy. 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Dietrict of Columbla_are to hold | would join with Belgium, Italy and Great Britain in’ an informal inquiry into German capacity to pay. Sire the original purpose of the Brit- ish invitation was to get-such an in- quiry started as would result In plac- ing ‘before the world the facts about Teparation and the best methods of get- ting an international loan floated to help Germany recuperate, the main ob- Ject could be served by a commission of experts from Belglum, America, Britain and Italy. Possibly when the commis- slon reported France might then find in the recommendations a suitable basis for a settlement. As it is now the French are in the position of blocking an inquiry into the facts and there is nothing in the Versallles treaty to pre- vent the other allies from making esti- mates whenever they please. If the purpose of the allied move was to_crystallize world opinlon so as to persuade the French people that a re- duction of the German debt is essen. tial, the French have recognized that purpose and bave felt justified in en- deavoring to frustrate the parley. But the. {)rlfluenc[edugun world opinion can s exerted by an Interallie v Wighou I Yy an interallied inquiry >resident Coolidge and Secretary Hughes have Indicated that lhc:)"?ve)- lieved ‘unanimous action was essen- tial to final settlements. Nations can- | not be compelled to give up treat rights or make any other. conce: slons without thelr cor sent. Already there is political backfire here against the Coolidge administratign for ven- turing into the reparation problem at all. The action of France affords the Washington “administration a grace- ful way out.of what might have de- veloped Into a serious politic: qual rel on the eve of Mr. Coolidge’s own campaign for the presidentlal nomi- nation, America has been nearer in the last two w ration in Euro- Pean a he, has been for | three v Europ has baen plead- ing for American 1L.iv. The United States has offered it, 01t France has blocked the way lard. - because she did not belleve the united States would give any substan:lal aid, but 1 would merely lend moral influence to the British position, and the distrust of Britain's pollcy by the French is {by no means denied either it London {or Paris. The faflure of the United | States o ratify the Versailles treaty or to approve the three. wer pact Ifnl' the defense of the French against Germany, together with the insistence ©of Washington that the allied debt to the United States must not be niixed up with the German debt to pmnc«.l has made the Poincare government | feel it cannot expect much from | America and that a policy of isolation { and direct dealing with Germany is | best, after all; for France. (Copyright, 1923.) e VETERANS TO GIVE BALL. High Officers of Army and Navy ‘Will Attend Fete. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of their annual military ball tonight at the City Club. Many prominent military and naval guests will attend lu uniform, including generals of the Army and admirals of the Navy, mil- ltaiy and naval attaches of the fo sign embassies, members of Congres and the wives, Distrlet Comm! sioners Rudolph and Bell, the com- manders of the veterans’ organiza- tions in the Distriet The musfe will furiiished the Navy Band, under direction Band Leader Benter. mmittee and recelving line in- cludes Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Ad- miral T. J. Cowie, Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, Brig, Gen. Samuel asell, Brig. Gen. Smedle; John Seott, Col. Wallac Juige Charles McChord, Commerce Commissioner Bred. Cox. Louis V. Carmack, Com- | mander J. M. Harrigan and George E. McGinty ¥ % POINCARE EXPECTS BRITISH DEMANDTO = | PAY UP WAR DEBTS _(Continued_from First Page.) by of The reception broad and comprehensive plans for economic rehabilitation of Germany and adequate payments by Germany on reparations accounts, The conversations as the State De- partment ended late yesterday, when | Ambassador * Jusserand calle i advices from his government, which reached him while Mr. Coolidge and tion on the basis of previous explana. tions from Paris. Yesterray's: mes- sage showed no modification of the French attitude, and added_nothing new to the situation. Secretary Hughes, before receiving the ambas. | sador, made a second visit to the White House for a brief conferenca with the President in preparation for Ppresenting American decision. The exchanges between Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Jusserand served to bring out a detalled state- ment of the limitations on the ex- pert Inquiry desired by the French Bovernment. With respect to the stipulation made In Paris that the experts should not discuss the occupation of the Ruhr, the ambassador explained that this would mean in the French view that the experts could examine all questions as to the resources of the Ruhr, the value of industrial es- tablishments and the productive pow- 'er of the region. France could mnot, | however, discuss the legality of .the | French ’occupation, the _system of collecting of taxes in the Ruhr region imposed by the French occupying forces, the guarantees seized by French troops or the agreement re- cently reached between the French authorities and the German industri- alists of the Ruhr. On the question of the exact mean- Ing of the French stipulation “pres- ent capacit, to which the experts would have been limited in studying ! German resources which might yield the means of payment of reparation, the ambassador explained that this could be Interpreted as meaning the survey of the situation up to and in- cluding the year 1930. Both the 1930 deadline and the re- strictions that would have been im- posed by the Ruhr stipulation were given genéral consideration by Secre- tary Hughes in formulating his an. swer. The 1930 proposal In itself, | however, was regarded by the Amer- ican government as foreclosing the Possibility of approaching a compre- hensive study of the situation and the formulation of far-reaching financial plans to avold eonomic disaster in Europe. To prevent such a' disaster was the only object sought in proffer- ing the help of competent.American experts.in an effort to solve the repa- rations tangle. - It was explainéd to the French dip- lomat that the perfod up to 1930 would have to be largely devoted to the very beginning of any plan suffi- clently broad to .glve reagonable promise of an economic restoration in Germany at some future date. There was no reasonable hope from the American viewpoint, the ambassador was advised, that any - substantial { payments toward. settlement of the ,{ reparationis obligations of Germany could ‘accrue from any increase of ! German - productivity that possibly could be brought about within the seven-year limit. It was reiterated that the Washing- fon government had made its original * suggestiony for an expert Inquiry & year ago, &nd had renewed them in the recent Hughes-Curzon correspond- ence in a spirit of friendship to all of the allled countries and for the sole purpose of finding some means to| make available American helpfuln in the European crisis. The fact t France has found it impossible to ac- { cept the proffer of American aid, al- | though her allies, Great Britain, Italy j nd Belgium, have indicated thefr de- sire to take steps to that end, has not changed the desire of the govern- | ment here to be helpful whenever an appropriate time for extending that helptuiness presents itsel For that reason officials’ refused to more than explain in detail what had ‘transpired in the conversations between the secretary and the ambas- sudor, and make clear the ‘views of the -Unfted States in the circum- stances. They would not accept any suggestion that the door to American helpfulness had been closed, but at the same time theéy would not deal in speculation of any character as to what the future might hold, with { ni - ' THE: EVENING ™ STAR,’ SNAPSHO' TAKES FIRM, COMPORT- ABLE STAND.., AND STARTS O PINISH ARTICLE HE WAS READING WHEN HE GOT ON CAR, {0 ~STARTS READING. REALIZ- ES HE'S READ THAT SENTENCE FOUR TIMES IN ALL Now RIS GINS ALL'OVER AGAIN AS SOMEONE MAKES BE- LATE| 2 0 ATED BOLT TOR DOOR. o 15 REQUESTED BY CON- DUCTOR, TO MOVE TOR= WARD, PLEASE STOOPS O PEER OUT OF WINDOW IN SUDDEN . PANIC THAT HE'S PASSED MOOTHS PAPER OUT, AND ONCE MORE READS OPENIN SENTENCE “WASHINGTON, PORTRAIT OF A MAN READ- ING ON A TROLLEY CAR. OB SR STREET © McClure D. READS A WHOLE PAR- AGRAPH BEPORE DIS - COVERING HE'S IN.THE WRONG COLUMIN HEARS, CONDUCT* - OR CALL:OUT HIS STREET AFTER ALL, GIVES ewspaper Syndicate ”C., "SATURDAY, REGQUEST 'AND * LOSES 1T AGAIN AS SEARCHES VOR HIS PLACE IN ARTICLE AGAIN. TINDS IT CAR GIVES SUDDEN STOPS T NURSE TOE WHICH $UST GOT UNDER FELLOW - PASSENZER, TINDS IT WABN'T HIS UP TRYING T0 READ AND LOOKS AT ADS iNSTEAD | FRENCHINTERPRET PRESENT CAPACITY Believe Futurg So Uncertain Experts Could Only Guess After 1930. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. France declines to give “a blank check” for the indefinite future. She is willing to have it expertly ascef- tained what Germany can pay ow and up to the year 1930, but will not consent to have Germany's capacity today and forever, fixed in advance. To this writer comes that interpre tation of the French attitude from an indisputably authentic quarter. There is little doubt that M. Poin- care’s position was thus represented to Secretary Hughes. Because, she says in “lacks the gift of prophecy.” France cannot tell what Germany's capacity to pay reparations may be two, four, six or ten years hence. The French are convinced no government, and no commission of economic experts, can tell. They declare conditiona in Ger- many—political and economic—are too chaotic and kaleidoscopic to jus- tify any assurance of the reich's fi- ancial potency. Events of the past forty-eight hours, as the French view them, show precisely how in- calculable ‘the German situation i On_Friday morning_America read effect, she Hup- only ‘most serv. ice in day-after- day travel over the roughest roads, but it carries its pas- sengers with de- lightful ease and comfort, Its per- formance is bril liant, STERREIT & FLEMING, INC. Champlain St. and - Kalorama Road Columbis 5050 BRANCH SALESEOOX 1233 Conn. Ave, that Ludendorif, * varia,” was about to “take Berlin. Before Friday was over America read that Ludendorff was in the hands of reich troops and his “dictatorship come to a sorry fizzle. The French argue that Germany in 1924, or 19 or 1928, or even in 1930, might not {be found by international experts to be capable of paying heavy install- ments of reparations. But time within the next six ydars, or at |the end thereof, she miglit have re- {habilitated herself to a'point where her capacity to pay would b vastly greater than it is _today obody knows—that's the French position. And because she insists nobody can know France will not “mortgage” the future and make it impossible to get, sooner or later, reparations which Germany happens at present not to be able to pay. Ready for Compromise. it can be sald authorita- tively, does not say that a repara- tions ‘inguiry must be limited to a period of six years, finally and once for all. She i< ready to have another examination of Germany’s capacity at the expiration of that time or in the midst of it, If that seems desir- able. But she is determined that just {because Germany may happen to be flat on her back In 1923 it shall not be possible for that nation, on the basis of that condition, to have her whole fyture capacity now assessed. 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