The Hague Conference
The finishing touches were put to the Hague Conference at the end of last week. Germany, as had been expected, was sufficiently accommodating, and the Conference thus ended in complete agreement on both the financial and political questions. If the Young Plan is ratified the evacuation of the Rhineland is to be accomplished at the latest by June 80th, 1980. Germany is to pay £1,500,000 into a pool to cover the costs until the evacuation is complete. If the costs should be higher the occupying Powers will pay the difference in proportionate shares. All unsettled German, claims for compensation arising out of the occupation and evacuation are to be waived. The Committee of Verification Ad Conciliation has mercifully been watered down so far that it, has become swallowed up in the valuable existing conciliation machinery Of the Locarno Treaties.
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