“HAS NOT PLAYED FAIR”
AMERICA AND THE ALLIES tayy-.ft-. ~ DEMAND FOR PAYMENT OP WAR DEBT’S (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day., Indebtedness to America is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to world peace, said the Hon. 11. Atmore in a speech at the annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen s t 'tub. Many nations of Europe are rankling under a feeling that America lias not played fair. America loaned ten billion dollars to the Allies, and was asking for it back, with ten million dollars interest added. from nations which boro 'tile heaviest burdens ni the war. Even American writers iiail recently questioned the wisdom of fl' 1 -'! 1 ' own country's attitude towards her debtors and the moral principles'involved in demanding payment m full. I'or fifteen months after America entered the war there was nut a single American soldier in Europe. During that time she continued to sell her goods lo Hie combatants and so piled up her profits at their expense. The Minister expressed the opinion that a general cancellation of inter-Allied war debts would lie the first real step toward world peace.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 July 1929, Page 5
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