Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 12

THE SUNDAY 1925—PART 1. STAR,, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 13, IS IN ISLANDS OF ALASKA‘i’;“e‘m":'ighlx"fhe”’:‘,L;{;‘;’,’“E,“,'fl’c ‘;fifismua climate the year round, lush| ot ) tlo country of the | ETieses grow waist high in their ric Tadie Weto Wi : old West 1 gonme. but ihe Isiands off | Soil, while cool, clear streams insure : e ell Named Alaska offer the last free range and |ample er supply for herds of cat-| Take Superior, hetween the Unitec |1and c - t year or overnment figures show th the largest fresh ake in {he Unl o mesdcied Ionenran 35 years the lowest temperature on |world. Tt trangely enough, situ ‘ The new round-up country lies on|any of these islands was 2 degreesafed 600 fec level, and it the islands just to the eastward of |above zero. The islands are “very |covers an area square miles |the Alaskan Peninsula, in the vicinity | rolling. possessing high bluffs, hills It is also note and plente 2d ‘are part of the often small mountains and deep val-'ous fish upon collecting from her debtors, in- cluding Germany, enough to pay her obligations to the United States. 12 :CAILLAUX STAKING POLITICAL LEGION'S CARAVAN i on' 0. i ‘s 550 57 s o | s s 5 fro) 'I-R AVH_S IN S-I-[]RM [ f | e en B oy ox. | Cattle and Blisep Men to Muks One i a ) S Wirte ave assmming & reve from Hopes For Terms Like Those Agreed By Britain, [pes are assuming o revenue Co | Last J ~ . - _ o under the Dawes plan. It is true that But Hope Seems Certain of Failure 1€ 156 Tiia oIt pebaned dhe mest in Coming Parley. leys. Some others bear are 4 scruh partially wooded tree life Trek Driven by Farmers. Special Dispatch to The Star. OLYMPIA, Wash., September 1 ‘attle and eheep men r forced as They Are | mum contemplated. £125,000,000 & vear, and if this whole sum was transferred from Germany to her creditors, then Britain would receive Virginia Welcome Makes Trip Otherwise Delightful to D. C. Tourists. Correspondence of The Star and New York World. LONDON, September 5.—It is a newspaper axiom that nothing bores readers like figures. And the bigger the figures, the more they For the mind refuses to grasp the meaning of billions, whether they are francs, pounds. dollars, marks or miles to a star. The Inter-allled debt problem, as generally expounded, | consists largely of impre wildering rows of astronomical sta tstics. Moreover, it might seem that everything that can be sald about war debts has been sald, that they might now be left for the actuaries of high finance to work out and | settle. In this wilderness of millions and few punctures, no delays occurred. | billions, 8f innumerable zeros, there Mo s ety Weahfisten still exists materfal for drama. In bt Is Church and |ternational hatreds that may last un. Falttax. fallowing the new Lee high- | til the time of our children's children, L Upperville, | the clash of compelling personalities, D vce, arriv- hazard of political fortunes—all | these are involved in the negotiations now under way for funding the French obligations to the United tates and Great Britain. The human aspect of the .problem proved most fascinating here this week to those who learned something of the inside of the duel between those two sen. sational politicians, now finance min. isters, Caillaux and Churchill. Caillaux Future at Stake. Special Dispatch to The Star. SHENANDOAH CAVERNS, Va. pte terrific electrical which visited this sectfon this afternoon, failed to de aute obile caravan of mem Stuart Walcott Post, No American Legion, Department ber 1 nd rain storm, lay the hers of f the District, who ed here to- night at 9:4 sk after a delight- | ful.trip through the Old Dominion No accidents marred the pleasure of the motor party, and aside froni 0 miles out from car containing Loyd of Rob. Post, No. 21, the fon of Winchester, met nd escorted the Legion- Winchester. American L the party Speeches and Mus Winchester the | Band escorted the | ourthouse, where i and Caillaux is staking his whole politi- cal fortune on his ability to get from United States funding terms as d as those which Churchill offered him here. offered with a large string tied to them. Britain will : | annuity of $6 fonnaires full settlement imilies, had o re out in terms of along the line means a cance s from the District take credit | of the present g with them the | land. Bu storm in some time |less the United States makes terms ast | Just as favorable to France, then the The first the rain was encoun- | British offer is withdrawn and tered while passing through Paris | inuing until Winc At the trip henandoah Caverns via the | ndoah Valley. “pr ion_of pe French debt to the string is this, that un- cent portionate American figure means is that the United Churchill's proposal is to ., must let France off with pay- wan was halted of $90,000,000 a year for urg Post, No rs, or something exactly equiva- Post, No. 47. | If this were done, the United CryStal Cav- | States would be canceling 60 per cent feast had been |of the French debt. The annuity other refresh- | Would be higher than the British, be- ie by W. K. | cause France owes us more money, imander of the Strasburg he proportion is the same. \venner, jr., of the Wood. | Put another way, the British solu- Commander Charles Reim. | tion am, ayment by France Stuart Walcott Post, and|of almost exactly 2 per cent on the ment Cc ank | capital of the debt. If the Ralph | “present-day value” of the deht were fixed at i value, interest of t !!n.-nn than 5 cent would have to | be paid the Wi the entranc melon 25 were 1 Expects United States to Accept. | ca | state {exact highe !have been con able to nce than obtained by tlod British Visit Caverns Today Tomorrow t g t the 1 caverr i about 3 o’clock will leave | Britain. Caillaux even for Wa ton via Winch r. Ber- | ministers and leading bankers, ryville, Harpers Ferry edorick. | here, that the United States would The storm which broke this afternoon | probably take the same sum as Britain crippled all telephon nd | s 0,000 a year—which would 'mmunication has not been estab- | bring the rate of interest paid to the lished up to 11 o'clock tonight. United States to about 11 per cent T'he members in the party, number- land reduce the present-day value of ing approximately 10 persons, were |the French t to America by about by the storm and came | three-quart No_infor ilot of the | led the e of | United tomorrow. | than 3% has wation reaching here has British_to that the tes will accept less 2 per cent. Even if Washing- RETH T ton comes down to 3 per cent, which CA”_LAUX RANKS H'GH !is thought the maximum concession | likely, then the British demand on { France will auton 1y go up from IN FRENCH PET HATES | $52.500.000 to about $85.000,000. This | is more than the French will agree to | pay. according to present information Remark | from Paris, where indeed it is at | present not ' certain whether Caillaux {run secure the adoption of the British |2 per cent offer, which amounts to more than 1,000,000,000 francs a year oclated Press |at the present rate of exchange. September 12.—Finance| Caillaux thi and made no bones ter Joseph Calllaux, whose sen-|about telling his hosts here, that the tional return from prison to power| Americans are bluffing. He conceives in the short span of five years—like | that he has created the conditional his arch political enemy, Georges |settlement in London a debtor bloc (Clemenceau, is one of the best hated |4 t the one creditor nation. He men in France. | declared, of course in private conver- An aristocrat by training and tem- | sation only, but most forcefully, that perament, M. Caillaux’s rise to politi-| the United States will never face the cal fame, ‘achieved through leadership | moral stigma that will fall upon her of Radical left, in personal appear-|in the opinion of the whole world if @nce and demeanor is the very antl-|she destrovs the British settlement b thesis of the generally accepted repre- |asking more than Britain agrees to sentative of the common people whose | take. claims he has championed caravan and v cars on the ri trip Minister's Dog Draws That Reveals Extent of Virtual- ly National Antipathy. must bore. | ive and be- | the | h demand rises automatically to | while | |1s paying her vast debt to Amerlca, | since " America has mo one to pay, | America cannot afford to play the | Shylock—his own word, often re | peated—and that in fact America will not do so. Held Out Hopes for Cut. | He even held out hope, which was | | not taken very serfously in London, | that after the United States has made a less than 2 per cent setltement with rance, she will ultimately”feel com (velied, ‘for moral reasons, to reduce the Baldwin Anglo-American debt |agreement in Britain's interest. He | went o far as to assure ministers and ‘l!.lllkl‘l‘:l here that should the United States at first refuse to negotlate on | the British basis, he will order the French delegation to take the next boat home, confident that w he | calls the moral factor will ultimately bring Washington to heel These facts are of great importance | to the United States. Presumably | Caillaux is wrong, and, despite what | Britain has done, the American de- | |mand for a much greater proportion- | |ate sum than Churchill has accepted | |will be presented. If so, and if Cail |laux does break off negotiations, the | {most_unpleasant fnternational finan- | |cial situation on record, with the ex-| ception of the reparations dispute, will | have been created. Calllaux may fall| |from power if his scheme goes wrong. | | It seems he will But an awkward, | indeed tragic, muddle will live after {him for his successors to grapple with us best they may That fs an exposition of the situa tion as Caillaux sees it, or as he tells the British he sees it It m be dif- ficult for Americans, who view the| whole mutter so differently, to be lieve that the astute Irench finance minister is serlous But apparently he is. He can scarcely have been bluf. fing the English, for there would be no object in such bluff. He has, it seems, hazarded his political fortunes |that he is right. Churchill Using Political Sk Winston Churchill and the British |treasury experts, during the recent ne gotlations with Caillaux, approached the whole subject f) n quite another angle. Caillaux did not convince them that he could get the United States down to a “'Z per cent settlement He ¢ have made some impression on »t the politiciuns, but the big refused to take his theories |seriously, and neither the treasury < nor the chancellor of the ex hequer suffer under any illusions as to the terms the United States is like- Iy to exact from France. But Winston Churchill is a con- summate politician, and as it seems in the light of considerable knowledge of the debt negotiations here, Churchill decided to fall in with Cail laux’s wishes for his own purposes, not Caillaux’'s. Why, if the British know that America will usk France 3% per cent, conceivably 3% per cent, and certainly not less than 3 perY cent, was the British offer to take 2 | per cent officially promulgated to the | world? The answer {s, it appears, that Churchill wishes to get not $62.- | 500,000 a year from France, but from | $85,000,000 to $100,000,000. Hut he knows France would never | agree to pay such a sum to Great! Britain In negotiations direct between the two countries. He thinks France | | cannot, however, resist in the end the | | financial pressure America can bring | upon her, and that she must meet | the American demand. Britain will then be able to claim, in_accordance with the formula he lald down in Parltament, payments “pari pussau,” | which means that Britain will get pro- | | portionate amounts from France to | those pald the United States. | Churchill has finanelal weapor up his sleeve in the shape of vast sums | |owed by the Bank of France to the | Bank of England, and a large bond | | indebtedness shortly maturing, which |can be used, if necessary, as means | of pressure. Poli v Laid Down. | Just a few more figures, the last in | this article, will furnish strong cir-| | cumstantial evidence that this is the | true view of the British position. Lord | Balfour, and later Churchill himself, | | have lald down most emphatically the | corner stone of British policy on inter- | | national debt which s now accepted | by all parties and which cannot be changed. Any ministry which sought to change it would risk being driven | from office by the tortured taxpayers. | tional | 000,000 yearly m: | each | ing, £27,500,000 from Gerr But in no quarter, here or abroad, is this thought possible. The maximum that any British financler will admit as possible s a payment from Ger- many of half this amount, £13,750,000, Ttaly to Be Asked to Pay. It has heen announced that Italy is to be asked to pay Britain, not as much as France pays, but an amount that shall take into account her na wealth and income—in other words, her capacity to pay. Ttaly's Income is about half that of I'rance, her national wealth one-third. —And her debt is but two-thirds the French debt. Accordingly, it is known that Britain intends to ask Italy for from £5,000,000 to 00,000. She cannot ask more in view of official state ments already made. Possibly {1 be collected from minor debto the smaller countrie Now, assuming the German pay ments £10,000,000, these figures show that Britain would be short £7,000,000 year of the amount needed to pay the United States. Even ass! which s thought unlikely, German payments reach half Dawes minimum, Britain would still be short nearly £4,000,000. As such a shortage would destroy the British debt policy and prove politically sui- cidal for whoever were responsible for ft, it is not and cannot be contem- 1 1. Where is the shortage to be ade up” Clearly, from France, hurchill knows—he has positive in formation—that the United States will ask not less than 3 cent from France. probably 315 pe nd he, therefore, secretly allows for an ulti mate payment to this country from France. not of £12,500 s an nounced the other but of some think like 000,000, he London debt nege the American among per r cent ons, then position _thus, and the United p per cent and takes $90,000,00 3 ., in which case Churchill has ruined himself as a financler, and has left a permanent deficlt of ~£8,000,000 or o between Britain's annual payment to the United ates and what she gets from her creditors. Or else Churchill is right, and France will have to pay ultimately to Britain a much larger sum than she A pay America. 1f Churchill 1s right and Caillaux wrong then, most unhappily, the United States will be held up as the blame for the additio eight or international Shyloc not only France, but also here. 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