FRANCE’S OFFER TO UNITED STATES
Not Sufficient for Some Seniors
MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRY IN EUROPE
[By Electric Cable —Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 30.
The French “war debt settlement, which was transmitted by President Coolidgo to Congress on Friday last, met with immediate opposition in the Senate, where a number of Senators made demands that the finance committee should make a thorough-going investigation into all the acts of the American Debt Commission. Senator Borah declared: "Prance is the most prosperous nation in Europe. She has been prosperous for the last three years, and if wo cannot collect more than fifty cents, on the dollar, it is because the French citizens are unwilling to pay taxes commensurate with the obligation placed upon them.”
In transmitting the debt settlement, President Collidge said: "Tho settlement, upon the terms set in tho agreement is fair and just to both nations.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3336, 3 May 1926, Page 7
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