Word: genoa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basing its claim on Article 235 of the Treaty of Versailles, the United States Government has sent the Reparations Committee a bill for $241,000,000 to defray the cost to date of the American army of occupation. Following closely on our refusal to go to Genoa and upon a near agreement among the Allied Finance Ministers as to the division of the German indemnity, the action of our government has provoked unfavorable comment abroad. The London "Chronicle", though admitting the justice of our claim, thinks it unfortunately timed; Andre Tardieu characterizes it as an "unfriendly act", and French opinion...
When interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter in regard to President Harding's recent decision on the participation of the United States in the Genoa Conference, Mr. Sullivan said, "We saw an opportunity to let Europe know certain things we feel they ought to do". The action taken, he thought was purely a measure to force the hand of certain European countries. "It was probably regarded as an opportunity to get the message across to Europe and to make her see the American point of view. There are three points which the United States feels should be settled before...
Russia, of course, strongly favors the conference. She has nothing to lose, and may gain something. Lenin has expressed a desire to go to Genoa and meet Lloyd George "face to face". It would appear that these gentlemen have forgotten the lesson of the Paris Conference, and overlook the success achieved (barring the U. S. Senate) by the Arms Conference, by having delegates from governments and not chiefs of governments represent the various nations...
...conclusion that the prospective conference is not merely an economic conference . . . but it is rather a conference of political character in which the government of the United States could not helpfully participate." With these words Secretary Hughes succinctly states the chief reason for our staying out of the Genoa Conference. The stand is justified. Almost from the time of the first suggestion of holding an economic parley have politics entered into the plan. Past events indicate that England is desirous of using the Genoa meeting as a medium for introducing Russia, industrially at least, to the great powers. Lloyd George...
...Phillip Gibbs recently predicted that, without the United States, the Genoa parley would be a failure. When one considers that the most important nations now left to confer are themselves divided on the point of wanting a conference its success seems jeopardized. When further, any consideration of rearranging German reparations and balancing of budgets of some of the nations are not to be discussed, it is difficult to comprehend how any progress can be made...