Cancellation of War Debts
COLD RECEPTION IN AMERICA. f United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The specifications of Sir Austin Chamberlain’s proposal for a general cancellation of reparations and war debts have been received here with interest, but have created no apparent disposition to change the prevalent official and legislative viewpoint opposing cancellation. High officials of the Treasury Department are non-committal. Among State Department officials and high ranking senators the report brought a general reaction that Britain had said unofficially in effect the same thing before without causing any change in the American viewpoint. Senator Smoot said he thought it hardly necessary to reiterate his opposition and that of many of his fellow senators to the British proposal. “The whole country knows how I stand on that." Senator Reed of Pennsylvania said: “I am perfectly convinced the position of Congress has been made clear and that it is not going to he changed.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6774, 4 February 1932, Page 7
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