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PEACE PROBLEMS

DOMINIONS! VOTING POWER. DEFENDED BY MR S. GOMPERS. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 12. Mr S. Gompers, in a speech at Philadelphia, referring to- the Peace Conference, defended the granting of a separate vote to each British dominion. He declared that they were more often with than against progress, and more often with the United States than England. They went into thp conference as States, and were entitled to that status. Progress was safeguarded by the British possessions. receiving a vote. —Reuter. WAR DEBTS TO QUESTION OE CANCELLATION. WASHINGTON, February 12. Mr Houston (Secretary to the Treasury) informed the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee that Great Britain on (several occasions had made advances to the United States with a view ,to cancelling Britain’s debt to America. The first advances came, during the sitting of the Peace Conference, and had been repeated since then; but -the Treasury Department disapproved every time. France sounded the United States concerning cancellation, of the French debt to the United States, but because the American attitude was unfavourable France never definitely proposed cancellation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18170, 15 February 1921, Page 5

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PEACE PROBLEMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 18170, 15 February 1921, Page 5

PEACE PROBLEMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 18170, 15 February 1921, Page 5

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