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These three sources of income- excise, railway bonds, bank stock- would be divided among the Allies according to the ratios arrived at in the Spa Conference of 1920. Each Ally would get a definite sum of cash each year from the excise taxes, and income from the railway bonds and bank stock. Each Ally would have only shareholders' rights over the latter sources of reparations. Reparations in kind would be obtained by means of orders in Germany, conducted in the usual commercial manner through the gold issue bank from the funds made available to che individual nations from...
...main points in the note are that Belgium, having received nearly 75% of her total reparations claim, now wants further priorities in future payments; that France, having agreed to a sum of 34,000,000,000 gold marks under the Spa agreement now wants a minimum of 26,000,000,000 gold marks plus what she owes to the U. S. and Great Britain, which is roughly another 27,000,000,000 gold marks; therefore, the total now claimed by France is virtually 53,000,000,000 gold marks...
...Spa, July, 1920: Germany agreed to deliver two million tons of coal monthly against cash advances from France...
...amount of her war indemnity, and to insist that she follow the demands of the Treaty. There car be no hope for peace in Europe, economic or physical, until these two questions are satisfactorily adjusted. Germany's attitude is rebellious; the first of January, on which date by the Spa agreement--an agreement indulgently granting more time than was allowed in the Versailles pact--Germany was to have been disarmed, finds her still bristling with soldiers masquerading as ponce and civic guards. Although such trickery is not dangerous at present, it will soon become so if allowed to continue unchecked...
...Green in a "Mender of Dreams" has worked out a capital situation with good effect of suspense, and has made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel paper" of Arminius "Concerning Watering Places Mostly German," which alluringly conjures up the atmosphere of the Continental Spa, is refreshing after so much that is subdued or gloomy (even Mr. Green's story has a dying mother in the background) and one is grateful, too, for the pure fun of Mr. H. H. Brown's "Vi et Armis." The "Afterglow," by Mr. Peter Willard, a subjective description tinged with real...