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President Hoover wants to keep Reparations and War Debts out of the national campaign, hence opposes their discussion at any economic conference before Nov. 8. Rarely in step with the White House, Senator William Edgar Borah went to Minneapolis last week and there delivered before the summer convocation of the University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement...
Those readers of the New York Times who scan only its headlines received a strong, specific impression when they read last week: DEBT CANCELLATION . . . PROPOSED BY BORAH...
...should bargain with Europe, offering cancellation in return for all-around reduction of armaments and numerous other concessions for the general good of the world. M. Laval soon showed Mr. Hoover how unwilling Europe is to make any such bargain, preferring that the U. S. simply cancel. Cried Senator Borah...
...some U. S. newspapers lapsed into giving the offhand impression that Senator Borah favors cancellation with no strings attached, the French Press did not. ANOTHER THREAT TO FRANCE bristled the Paris Liberté. "The man who is more important than the President in directing American foreign policy in the name of the Senate now asserts brutally that debts and disarmament are linked! He asserts that military and financial problems should be settled by a new conference under Washington's orders. Is France eager to put her head under the knife of the guillotine...
...London, more cheerful editors welcomed what several of them termed Senator Borah's "conversion," the Liberal News Chronicle recalling that "he has been hitherto one of the most uncompromising opponents of debt revision." In the City (London's Wall Street) there was a cozy feeling that Cancellation-With-Strings-Attached must be the first step toward Cancellation, whether Senator Borah knows that his "conversion" has begun...