REPARATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 5

REPARATIONS

CHURCHILL EXPLAINS BRITISH ATTITUDE

ALU POSSIBLE WILL BE DONE.

TO ADVANCE GOOD ARRANGEMENT

FIXING GERMANY’S TOTAL.

BRITAIN'S BID CONTRIBUTIONS

(Received 10.5 a.m.j LONDON, Oct. 23. The stand Britain will take at the forthcoming Reparations Conference was outlined by Hon. Winston Churchill in a speech at

| Chingford. ’ Re said Britain would do everything possible to advance any good arrangement to fix Germany’s total, but Britain had already made an. immense unequalled contribution to the reduction of the reparations. FORGIVEN OUR DEBTORS. He added : “We have, renounced ail ideas of taking money either from our Allies or Germany for ourselves. We have forgiven our debtors, who owed ns two thousand millions sterling. Everything except what is needed to pay our American creditors for munitions lias been expended in the common cause. No other ally has made or contemplated anything like an equal sacrifice surely. THE BALFOUR NOTE. Nobody can expect us to do more. We have taken a stand irrevocably on th t e principle of the Balfour Note. Wo have to pay thirty-three millions yearly, and 1 are actually getting now about thirty-two from Europe. Thus we ate ‘on the point of achieving the position aimed at in the Balfour Note and we shall do everything in our power to maintain that position in the future. —Australian Press Ass oci ati on —llni ted So rvi ce. PRECIPITATE AND INCAUTIOUS. GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY. (Received 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 23. The limes Berlin correspondent has been precipitated andl incautious, only helping to bring France and England together again to the exclusion of Germany. According to the new Nationalist leader, Hem Hugenzurg, in the J course of an address to a party secret meeting, the most important task was to prevent Germany becoming a world’s battlefield. Hie most steidious domestic problem was the enormous indebtedness. SOLD OUT. If the Dawes plan continued for a decade Germany would be sold out. The Party’s foremost task was to preserve the old German spirit and encourage semi-military organisations. The Centre Party’s organ suggests that Hugenburg is disappointed bo- { i cause he has not achieved .his hopes i : for /plutocratic influence. He has i been dreaming Fascist dreams. Radical newspapers welcome the . election of Hugenburg because it is . likely he will produce a powerful anti-nationalist coalition. 'rimes Cable.