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Show INSIST GERMANY PAY COST OF ALL INVASIONS MADE NIWAIIK', X. J., Nov. Jtt. Tn aiding Belgium, France and Italy to meet their reconstruction problems, the United States can help them most by Insisting at the peace conference that Germany nay the cost of 'her invasion, declared Francis II. Sisson, vice president of the Guaranty Trust company yt New Vork, in addressing the Kssex County Bankers' Association today. "If Germany has lost her credit, she has mines and railroads and ports and many otner sources of wealth which could be used to the partial advantage of the allies and to the payment of her Indemnity,' said Mr. Siason. Referring to the "possibilities of financial finan-cial unrest and industrial chaos" in trills country, Mr.' Slsson asserted "shortage of labor has become a chronic condition in this country because of our great resources re-sources which have scarcely begun Ho be developed.'" lie also declared that "there can be no arbitrary reduction of wages to tbe prewar basis." Asking whether the United States j should return to private ownership or J "experiment in state socialism," he declared de-clared stringent government control in peace times would constitute a deadly menace, to industry, and warned that "pur.iuiL of economic will-o'-the-wisps would lure us into the bogs of Bolshevism." |