INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 15

INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

WAR DEBTS AND REPARATIONS BRITISH REPLY TO FRANCE'S NOTE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. * RUGBY, December 17. The reply to the recent French Note setting forth tho British Government’s views regarding debts and reparations was to-day handed to tho French Ambassador in London. It is understood that the reply emphasises tho importtanco of waiting the report of the Advisory Committee under the Young Plan which is now sitting at Basle. THE MORATORIUM _Jl WASHINGTON, December 17. The moratorium took its first legislative hurdle to-day by gaining the approval of tho Ways and Means Committee of the House. The committee attached an amendment. Four Democrats voted against giving tho moratorium a favourab’o report to the House. [The amendment, as proposed by Representative Ragon (Arkanag, Democrat) read: “It is hereby expressly declared to be against the policy of Congress that any of tho indebtedness of foreign countries to the United States should be in any manner cancelled or reduced, and nothing in this joint resolution for the ratification of the Hoover Moratorium shall be construed as indicating a contrary policy, or as an implication to give favourable consideration at any time to a change in the policy hereby declared.”