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...apparently satisfactory reply to the demands of the reparation commission and the commission's decision to grant Germany a provisional moratorium for the year 1922 may improve the financial situation throughout the world; at least it will have a definite stabilizing effect in Europe. The outlook is encouraging because Wirth, Hermes, and Rathenan, the German chancellor, the finance minister and the foreign minister, have made a serious effort to meet the commission's requirements"; they have taken action to put German finances on a sound basis. The floating debt, as well as the speed of the printing presses...
...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...
Chancellor Wirth has come before the Reichstag with plain-spoken declarations that have the air of an ultimatum. Germany, he says must have a complete moratorium for the coming year, and a foreign loan as well if she is to being to meet her obligations for 1922. As to the recent action of the Allied Reparations Committee, which has demanded additional taxes of sixty billion marks and Allied control of German finances, he declares arbitrarily that no government will be formed to meet those conditions. The Chancellor's speech was greeted in the Reichstag with cheers...
...small remaining value of the mark, and open the door for Bolshevism. Their opponents answer with a different suggestion. They assert that the whole affair will sour the Genoa Conference on the hands of Lloyd George, leaving him in disrepute, an opening the way for a triumphant Lenin and Wirth to come forward with counter demands quite in the manner of Stalky himself...
Tickets for the performance are on sale in Boston at Ritter and Co., Boylston street; Schoenhoff Book Co., Tremont street; Herrick's, and Charles Wirth's, Essex street; and in Cambridge at the Co-operative Branch or from E. R. Mitton '19, Claverly 7, or P. O. Box 67, at $1.50, $1.00, 75 cents and 50 cents...