REPARATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1922, Page 1

REPARATIONS.

STATEMENT BY HON LLOYD GEORGE. U’STKAMW AND X.Z. <’AI*!,K ASSD(TATION. LONDON. May 31 ■ i In the- House of Commons Mi Lloyd George made a statement dealing with j the Reparations, lie slid that. Ucj Allied Reparations Commission were | not yet able to say ain't their d« finite aiHw. r would he to the German pronnsals. Therefore It was difficult lor him to enter upon a discussion ol the subject. Anything that he might say would hardly he useful at the piesnit moment, and it might easily he harm- , fd, hut it might he assumed that the i itieal phaf:.- which the m itter presented a few weeks ago had passed. There was one fact which hail upset the balance of the Reparation Commission, as it has also upset the League of Nations. That fact was the absence of America. Her absence from Hu machinery of the \ ersaillcs Treaty ban made it less elloctive, and liatl made .- work with less precision. There was no cause for disagreement between France and ourselves.* He was glad tint Gi nminy had made a real elfort to meet .the requirements of tl;,. reparations Commission. llis convietion was. that sak-ty toi Franee could he found only in the prat-t:e -of w hat was provided tor m tl-e League of Nations covenant. Britain was not committed in any way to join in any invasion, or any further occupation, of German territory. What ground of objection could tln'ie bo to the suggestion ol an iuteinnlioiia, loan as a means of enabling Germain („ pay a large portion of the reparation demands, lie believed that G -nnany was now honestly doing her best m try lure of very considerable nohUcal ddhou I ties. ( onsequentl.v she was entitlec to every consideration an I respect, policy of lioiifiillilincnt by (L-imany would he a policy ol disaster for hei. It was not a question of France acting alone, if there was a defiance of the treaty of Versailles. AVe were signatories of it. and we were committed jt. If the Government (lid come oil Germany to insist the Ireaty, il was not France that would lie left alone to exact t.l e conditions. Me should act. We had stood for a policy of moderarestraint, and had thereby rendered ourselves liable to a good 'h' l }' of misrepresentation in France. '' should still stand for moderation, as well as for the policy of fulfilment. Any isolated action by our Ally would he d:s

astrous to the Entente. A proposal had been made, outside, that Britain should remit the whole of the three thousand million ot the debts owing to her by other countries, without receiving the remiss-inn ol the thousand millions which Britain ou.> ,s. He declared that no Government could possibly contemplate such a thing. At the same time the Bntisn Governim-id were perTectly willing to enter into an international discussion wi ll a view to obliterating the war debts owing to Britain, provided that she received some hem-lit in regard to the debts which Britain owed.

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