REPARATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20339, 21 August 1929, Page 14

REPARATION.

Sir, —Being a simple cocky, I naturally do not grasp the above subject. Consequently it puzzles mo why we cannot mind our own business and allow other countries to do the same. If a man owes me a certain amount of money, I do not ask Smith, Jones or Robinson how much I should get for my debt, but arrange that myself. Messrs. AY*son, Kellogg, Dawes and Young, all I believe Americans, have laid down clearly how much or how little England is to get for her just debts, whereas America, without any outside help from other ccvnlries, arranged England's debt to her by adding up every dollar and demanding this amount. Now, being a child in finance, I must ask why England does not follow America's practical example, instead of her theoretical one. Surely America, ' who is so generous to these, other countries with England's money, must ''-S see the justice of asking these countries to pay England in the same ratio as' she asked England to pay her. In the meantime, before getting a reply to these queries, "J take off my hat" to Snowden, the only man who has had the temerity to formulate "points" of his own without American assistance. My advice to Snowden is to Percy Verb.