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UNITED STATES PORTION. '• THE PERILS AHEAD." WASHIXGTOX, February 5. Senator Hiraiu .lohnsrm, one of the ■■irreconcilable*." asked the Senate yesterday to consider "the grave and important questions which have been presented by what happened in Paris at the conference of the Allied Finance Ministers." Senator W. K. Korali said that two: important question? arooc out. of the' fonference which must at pome time be decided by the State and the people of .America. " The first was that of the possible outcome of the action taken in Paris. The second was that of the power of executive branches of the Government to determine, without the consent of Congress, as to the disposal of the nation's debts. When the Secretary of State (Mr. C. E. Hughes) said the United States was neither legally nor morally bound by the Paris agreement, he probably expressed his" present intention, remarked Mr. Borah. Someone in Congress ought to render what service he could in the avoidance of tin- perils ahead. "We have traded amity and goodwill for perplexity, ronfiisinn. ill-will, and hostility.' , said Mr. Borah. "That is what We got at Parie for 2J per cent of reparation payments which may never be paid."— (Reuter.l
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 5
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