Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 4 | Thus it Endeth

THUS IT AT A AT T the time the treaty of ot Versailles was wasA A LA of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- signed the allies alli s talked forcing many to pa pay reparations of A conference In 1920 scaled this down to In 1924 the Dawes committee commit commit- tee refusing to commit itself as to the grand total ruled that Germany must pay a year The You Young g plan in 1928 set the total at and gave Germany until 1988 to pay in full Now with the reparations conference fi finally finally fi- fi nally reaching agreement the German delegates dele gates have agreed that their nation shall pay just and and the allied nations are glad they can get t that at much The steady shrinkage of these figures represents represents represents rep rep- resents a number of processes that have been active In the world since the w war r. r For Fox one thing it represents the steady decline in Germanys Germany's economic health A nation that was willing 12 years ago to sign an I. I O. O U. U for more than 30 billions now Insists Insists in insists In- In that Is the limit of its Capacity ca capacity ca- ca to pay Germany signed the first agreement under duress yet the contrast be between between between be- be tween Germanys Germany's s 's armed force and th that t of or her former enemies is just about as great now as asit asit asit it was in 1920 For another thing the dwindling of these figures represents a a return to sanity on the part of the nations of Europe The original figures were simply fantastic No unprejudiced economist ever supposed such sums would or could be paid the statesmen statesmen statesmen states states- men who insisted that they would were simply simply simply sim sim- ply kidding the he folks back home And what of the United States Do we look with complacency upon the emergence of Germany in the closing chapter with laurels laurels lau lau- of victory heaped upon her The people of the United States will insist I that foreign nation debtors shall not make repayment to this country dependent upon the Lausanne deal by which Germanys Germany's war reparations are reduced