AMERICA’S PLANS
WERE SUBMITTED TO FRANCE. SURPRISE AT DENIAL. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, January 9. State Department officials expressed amazement at the dispatches from Paris stating that the French Foreign Office had denied receiving in any way the United States proposal for an international commission of experts to recommend the highest figure of reparations Germany could pay. The Administration officials reiterated that Mr Hughes’s proposal was sub mitted to France in a definite way through the regular official diplomatic channels. The'officials stated, regarding a similar denial, that France had received a United States protest against the Ruhr occupation, that there had been no formal protest, but at the same time tbaf the United States had strongly intimated its opposition to such action. DISAPPROVAL NOT OFFICIALLY EXPRESSED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, January 9. The report that the United States Government has semi-officially expressed disapproval of the French occupation of the Ruhr is authoritatively denied.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11415, 11 January 1923, Page 6
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