5 JANUARY 1924, Page 18

America's two reparations experts, General Charles D. Dawes and Mr.

Owen D. Young, sailed for Europe last Saturday. Although they are stated to be acting in a purely private capacity, they had lengthy interviews with Mr. Hughes, the Secretary of State, and with President Coolidge before they left Washington. The American attitude towards reparations is thus sum- marized by Mr. Frederic W. Wile in a dispatch to the Sunday Times : "America believes Germany should be required to pay to the full limit of her den.onstrated capacity, but any assessment of reparations beyond that point would be regarded as morally indefensible and politically unsound."

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