WAR REPARATIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18349, 8 June 1931, Page 7

WAR REPARATIONS.

QUESTION OF REVISION. SENATOR BORAH’S VIEWS. • EXPEDIENT AND JUST. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. NEW YORK, June G. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says Germany’s effort to suspend reparation payments Is believed to foreshadow a move to re-open 'the entire question of interAllied debts, with which probably disarmament questions will be linked. The correspondent draws attention to the fact that the Secretary of Slate, Mr H. L. Stimson, and the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr A. W. Mellon, propose to spend the summer holidays in Europe, promising Important conversations with Britain and France. The despatch states that the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, Mr W. E. Borah, favours a revision of 'the reparation payments. He said a revision seemed to him economically expedient and fundamentally just. Nothing was to be gained by anybody by forcing Germany Into a complete breakdown. No nation ought to want to grind down into unspeakable misery the working people of Germany and there was where the great weight of this burden fell.

Mr Borali said increased armaments were the contributing cause of European depression, making it Impossible for Germany to pay.