Show A E BALKS N AGREEMENT AGREE MENi ACTION PAVES WAY FOR MORN difficulties ON DIVISION OF reparations delegates at paris meeting dacusi stand taken in settlements to be made by french government of late war debt farls sir robert home iloene chancellor chanc ellot llo of the british exchequer and colonel jasper theunis Theun Theurl js ys belgian premier and minister of finance enlivened thee the first conference of finance ministers od great britian italy belgium and france according accord lne to thursdays news new a papers roland W boyden BO den was as pres ent its as unofficial c ibi observer for th the united states the commission at that time also iso decided that hut the value of tile the sarre mines was to be reckoned as among the payments received by france before may 1 charles de Last eyris french in inister of nuance finance vigorously denied that those agreements of if au gust 13 last were binding he be declared that none of the them had been endorsed indorsed Indor rn do sed by tile the french parliament a and nd that france was under no obligation t to submit to their validity the italian delegate promptly seized frances objections as a chance to claim that an increased share be allotted italy for tile the cost of lier her army of occupation 31 Laste ryrie Is quoted by the figaro as having declared after the conference 1 11 I was compelled to explain at some length to my illy british belgian and italian colleagues that france bas liaa not ratified these agreements and that for france they have not tile the obligations of an accomplished tact fact nevertheless th eless it cannot be denied that there were negotiations find that these negotiations had some intrinsic intrinsic j A mer merit t W nize that we are dealing with complex and purely technical pr problems oblenis we must that if the agreement readied reached hist august 1 13 for example lins 1114 not awen ratified by france that alie other three groat great nations have flailed tin anil ratified it we continue to study our problems tomorrow find doubtless reach an agreement |