"MAKE GERMANY PAY"

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 18, 21 January 1921, Page 7

"MAKE GERMANY PAY"

REPARATIONS PROGRAMME

M. LOTJOHEUR'S METHOD.

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(AUSTRALIAN • HEW ZEAIAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 19th-January.

A vigorous effort to make Germany pay is the keynote of M. Brand's policy. The whole of France backs him, confident that it will not be through ths want of a clever man at the head of French affairs if the! policy is not enforced. M. Loucheur, who has been , given charge of the Ministry of Reparations, is a strange figure. A few years ago he was poverty-stricken, but now he is one of the wealthiest men ;n France. He made enormous sum's as a contractor during the war, and attained great political power.' Now he is regarded as the ."mystery millionaire" whose hand is in everything. M. Loucheur thinks that Germany is under-taxed arid is avoiding payment by asserting that she is- bankrupt. His policy is that the Allies shall accept her word and assume control of her taxing and spending Departments. He proposes to take steps to give the German mark a positive value; to increase the railway and other public service charges; to control the German Budget;,to tax the German taxpayer at least as higlily as the French; to collect taxes in the form of an indemnity; and to collect 80C0 million marks yearly in coal and 2000 millions in chemicals, timber, and Customs duties.