NATIONS’ WAR DEBTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 8 October 1929, Page 5

NATIONS’ WAR DEBTS

WILL SLATE BE WIPED? MR SNOWDEN'S' INFLUENCE , ’ . The prediction that if Mr Philip Snowden were Chancellor of the Exchequer for two or three years he would " he able to persuade the natipns that war debts should ' ? be wiped out, was made by Mr " s Ben Turner in a speech at -u; '■ Glasgow. . ■ , LONDON, Oct. 7. ’Mr Ben Turner, speaking at the City Hall, Glasgow, prophesied + haf • • if Mr Snowden were Chancellor for two or three years he would, bo aHe to persuade the United States and otter, nations that the war debts should be wiped out in order that people might bear their burdens bet- ' ' £ ter «tKan - at' l present, v Mr Kirkwood, speaking elsewhere at i Glasgow. , denounced Mr Snowden as a Tory. He said there was no difference between his policy and that of Mr Churchill. He wanted Mr Snow- • den to fight the bankers and financiers of Britain as he fought the leaders of foreign countries at The Hague over the reparations question.