REPARATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1921, Page 8

REPARATIONS.

BITTER FRENCH COMMENTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Paris. Dec. 23. The Journal says hope that I’rance and England would find themselves united to demand the debts due to them must be abandoned. The Figaro declares that normal diplomaey is giving place to a , system by j which a number of politicians meet, at CEome pleasure resort and talk to one another through interpreters. Draft edicts are drawn up after a confused discus- <- ■ _4-i.r. nf Mid neonlp.

sion disposing of the lives of the people. As the Allies are never to have recourse io force we must wait until Germany, who has no scruples on this score, gets into a position when she can have recourse to iforce, and we shall not have long to ""The Eclair asserts that Mr. Lloyd George is no longer opposed to Germany. He has become Germany’s impassioned advocate. Franco-British conferences are sheer kypocr sy. , The i’etli Journal, on the -other Jin nd, savs that Franco’s reparation rights have been recognised by Britain in a definite and satisfactory manner PROPOSED ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. Washington Dec. '2*2. Senator France introduced a resolution in the Senate which would authorise President Harding to call an international conference next month to discuss the settlement of war debts and reparations.