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...Allies, having sunk their differences by compromise, called upon M. Louis Barthou, Chairman of the Reparations Commissions, to invite the U. S. Government to send experts to sit on each of the two commissions of inquiry. M. Barthou wrote to Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. observer on the Reparations Commission, giving him further information required by U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes...
...Signed) LOUIS BARTHOU...
Herr Breitscheidt then suggested that Germany adopt the plan for payment of reparations put forward by M. Louis Barthou on behalf of France and M. Delacroix on behalf of Belgium, by which 35,000,000,000 gold marks were demanded. " What we object to in the plan," said he, " is the stipulation for the progressive evacuation of the Ruhr and its failure to reimburse Germany for the costs of maintaining the armies of occupation...
...adequate in dealing with a Mexico, but for a group of nations so economically interdependent as those on the European continent, it is an economic impossibility. Bankrupt Europe cannot long afford a war or wars, should they break out; all the great governmental representatives--M. Tchitcherin, M. Barthou, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor With--all of them,, like "all the King's horses and all the King's men" are powerless to change this fact. The tragedy is that they are also apparently powerless to effect cooperation...
...possible altogether to condemn the attitude. Twice France has been burned, and burned severely, for lack of sufficient protection against German fire, and naturally she has no desire for a third experience. Furthermore, as M. Barthou pointed out, Chancellor Wirth has given her no reason to regard her old enemy as a penitent sinner. Agreements signed by the Germans are still mere scraps of paper--as witnessed by the refusal to keep the reparation promises. Her troops, too, keep having unpleasant little experiences with bombs while carrying out the provisions of the treaty. Only a day or two ago, while...