DEBTS TO U.S.A.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1923, Page 1

DEBTS TO U.S.A.

(VStIUi.IAN A.xil N it- OvMl.fi ASSOCIATION. BIG talk. WASHINGTON, Eebruarv 16. Senator lived violently attacked the proposed British settlement at l -da,\ s Senate debate, lie assailed Britain and condemned those believing that the I’niLed Stales sluuilil he lenient „ob ber and other debtms. Senator I.i 1 : “I have been asked bow us. >'(■ going to get our money. One wat s to have enough nerve to demand it I If we cannot get it that way. tin’ll I would get it in the same way as other nations get theirs from weaker nations. I have in mind some of the possessions of other nations not lar from our shores, that could he taken within 2-1 hours. I would get our money in the way that it has been dime thinegh countless centuries by insisting on. and, if necessary, enforcing Oil! . ii'lits.” |'n tlie debt debatu, Senator Reed IT eked a Senate agreement made to limit tbe debate, lie made (lie charge that “indecent haste’' is being omploy- ' cd in the passage of the Bill. He declared : “There is no reason for tin's ; haste! We have the right to examine this contract, which is the biggest j contract in American history—to see j whether the interests of the United ; States arc safe guarded. We bare net j vet doin' that property."