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Along came the U. S., however, to demand payment of $250,000,000 for the cost of maintaining a Rhine Army and $350,000,000 for War damages...
...results of a series of private conferences and the preliminary sessions of the main Conference was that an agreement was reached between the U. S. and Britain, whereby the former will receive as payment for the Rhine Army costs about $13,750,000 annually for about 17 years, instead of $20,000,000 for twelve years as settled in the so-called Wadsworth Agreement (TIME, June 18, 1923). On the War damages claim the U. S. was awarded a 2¼% share of the total payments which are to stretch over a period of 42 years. As Germany...
Herriot may wrangle with a recalcitrant Chamber, the Reich may hide away machine guns in every Rhine fortress--but ah, ciel! what a filet! What matters it that the debt must be paid? One must eat. And since one must eat, one might as well eat the best, and brave the indigestion that man is heir...
...Bayreuth pilgrims are viewing with glee Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad-and, of course, the Dragon. Where the Dragon was found for this year's performance, one is unable to discover at this distance. . . . The Rhine maidens, buxom Bavarian lasses all, were swung, as Wagner directed, by wires attached to the stage-ceiling through the blue-green gauze "waters" of the river. Except for the fact that very few stellar singers could be mustered (most of them having been engaged for the Munich Wagner-season, which opened...
Germany: "Every display of German good faith will find an equal display on this side of the Rhine, but I hope there is no idea in Germany that I can be duped...