THE DAWES PLAN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 25 October 1928, Page 6

THE DAWES PLAN

SUGGESTED REVISION.

APPOINTMENT OF EXPBEJT,

LONDON, October 23,

It is understood, says a Berlin message, that the experts to reviso the Dawes plan will he appointed as soon as Mr Gilbert concludes the Don, don and P'arls conversations. Germany will probably Ijave/ three representatives, a member of the Government, a banker and an industriUlist. Mr Gilbert lunched with members of the Belgian Cabinet at Brussels to-day. The Ministers laid it down that Belgian desired the maintenance of the Dawes payments so long as the United States declined to diminish Belgian’s debt. MR CHURCHILL’S SPEECH. LONDON PRESS OPINION. “The activities of Mr Parker Gilbert, Agent-General for reparations/ payments, continues to excite speculation as to what happened when Mr Winston Churchill went to Paris,’* says the Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent commenting on Mr Oiinrcliill’s speech. “W.as it that Mr Churchill intimated that London upheld the Balfour Note on reparations while M. Poincare indicated ho stood by his previous utterances and Brussels was 5101 leys adamant?” asks the correspondent. “Thei fact is neither Britain, Belgium nor possibly Italy is in any Burry to revise the Dawes ’ plan, which' is working well.

“Franco may have a special reason arising from the commercial debt of £80,000,000 maturing to the United States in the summer of 1929, but it is primarily Mr Gilbert who is ■ intent on negotiating the reparations problem. H© is supported by some sections of American politic)*! and financial opinion but hardly by the Washington Government.