Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-05 | Page 16 | Nazis Pay Bills of Belgians

Nazis Pay Bills Of Belgians For some reason which U. U S. S business men cannot quite fathom the nazis have begun paying up the back bills owed in this country by Belgian importers which were contracted prior to the occupation n. n Until recently Belgium was the only country from Iron which no money t. t had come to our exporters in at least partial settlement of their claims Within the past month without explanation or warning payment has begun coming through It is in dollars dollars dollars-an an exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change of which the axis powers are very short and which they had tried to conserve as much as possible even though they had littie little little lit lit- tle tie opportunity to spend it directly Beneficiaries of this phenomenon speculate that the payments may be a combination of will good-will gesture gesture ture and propaganda They wonder wonder won won- der whether the nazis are trying in this way to convince American business of German efficiency to tc show how smoothly commerce proceeds proceeds proceeds pro pro- once der dec fuehrer's representatives representatives representatives represent represent- have taken over and how conscientiously they regard financial financial finan cial obligations The explanation may be quite different If so no body is known to have thought though of it Copyright 1941 McClure Syndicate