THE REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1928, Page 6

THE REPARATIONS

THE Rival interests

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LONDON, Oct. 24.-. , “Mr Parker Gilbert’s activities cotn inue to excite speculation as to what happened when Mr Winston Churchill ! weni',;tp Paris, ’’ says the Daily Tele:%raph^s'diplomatic correspondent, iin commenting on Mr Churchill’s speech as cabled yesterday.” Was it that Mr .'Churchill intimated that. London upheld the Balfour Note on Reparations, while Mr Poincare indicated that he stood by his previous utterances, ana Brussels was no less adamant? The fact is that neither Britain nor Belgium, and possibly Italy, is in any •hurry, to revise the Dawes Plan, which, is •working, well. France may' Have a special '.reason, arising from .her commercial debt of eighty millions sterling, maturing to the United States in the summer of 1929. , It is primarily Mr Parker .Gilbert who' is intent ion reopening the Reparations' problem. He is supported by some sections of American political and financial opinion, but hardly by the Washington Government. : f- ■' '• f -

BELGIUM WANTS Nb CHANGE,

BRUSSELS, Oct. 24

■... Mr Parker .Gilbert lunched with memjbers of the. Belgian Cabinet, who laid it down that Belgium desired the maintenance of the Dawes payments, so long as the United States declined to diminish Belgium’s debt.

GERMANY READY. , BERLIN, Oct. 24. It is understood that the Dawes Plan revision experts will he appointed by Germany as soon as Mr Parker Gilbert concludes London and Paris conversations. Germany will probably have three representatiyes, a member of the Goiv'qmment, a banker and an industrialist;

COMPLAINT WITHOUT FOUNDATION. ■ LONDON, Oct. 23.' The “Morning Post” Brussels correspondent says: The Belgian Minister of Justice considers Burns’s complaint, Cabled on. Oct :■ -17th;, is without founda-v tion. He states that during the time Burns wag in the institution he made no complaints,ejtljer to the Minister was sentenced on June 6tli, and released on September;;22iul.

her 22nd. Meanwhile, after receiving money from his family, he had escaped and had been ' recaptured;, by - ' Gendarmes. British • vice-Consuls at. Antwerp had visited Jpogstr.aeten, and had satisfied themselves as to.the equity of the conditions imposed, v