When we write on Thursday, Germany has not yet given
her consent. Her view is that she not only sacrifices her share of the /15,000,000 accruing from the change-over from the Dawes Plan to the Young Plan- a share estimated at 17,500,000—but that she will have to meet an increase in Reparation payments during the early years of the Young Plan which she estimates at 12,000,000. What is she to get in return ? No doubt she will ask for the fixing of a definite and early date for the evacuation of the Rhineland, and the decision rests with France and Belgium. We trust that there will be no attempt at such hard bargaining as would frustrate the Hague Conference after all. Mr. Snowden spoke at the beginning of the Conference as though he expected no more money from Germany, yet Germany took her share in raising the money to satisfy him. She should be helped and humoured now.
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