10 JANUARY 1925, page 1

If The Delegates Had Only To Divide Up The Reparations

which will be obtained under the Dawes Scheme the matter would be simple enough. They would only have to distribute the amount—the annual £50,000,000—accord- ing to the Spa......

Now To Turn To Inter-allied Debts. M. Clemente], The French

Minister of Finance, - has proposed to America that France should be granted a moratorium. The British Government is believed to have declared that they will raise no objection.......

The Moratorium Proposed By M. Clemente' Would,...

ten years. M. Clemente' further suggests that the French payments should be spread over eighty years and that the interest paid should be only one-half of one per cent. It......

From The British Point Of View It Is Desirable That

the prior charges should be as small as possible, as there will then be more money left over to pay in reparations. France, however, may well think that her " real " share of......

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Tr HE inter-Allied Financial Conference in Paris, where Mr. Churchill arrived on Tuesday, is dealing with a series of exceedingly ticklish- problems. Nominally, it is concerned......