Show I I I I j I I I I I FRE FRENCH CH NEWSPAPERS 1 CONTINUE CAMPAIGN 1 TO SAVE WAR DEBTS PARIS March l 11 A A campaign Is be being being being be- be ing carried on In certain French newspapers newspapers news- news papers against any program by the i United States to collect Its war debts i edE from Erance j Writing In paper formerly a strong supporter of Premier ex-Premier Enand Briand En- En and Paul rho vho Is a member of parliament says Let us reread the enthusiastic re recitals recitals recitals re- re of Marshal Fochs Foch's voyage across the United States And the accounts also of the multiple hurrahs which greeted Briand and Viviani Reread them I say say to to measure their fragility The sympathy of the Yankees stops at atthe atthe atthe the edge of their pocketbook They tell us with a haughty brutality that In twenty five years we must pay our debts to them Twenty-five Twenty years ears In InI other words less delay than we have accorded Germany I But you ou say at least America will join us In trying to make Germany pay No not at all They intend to sta stay more than thai ever aloof famous political commentator tor writes In the Echo de Paris By Its brusque abandon of the com com- mon-economic mon regime slowly organized during the war the Washington govI government government gov gov- is for a large part responsible for the present European disorder es especially especially es- es the exchange crisis They cannot In the same breath demand payI payment pay pay- ment of ot our debt to them and urge the amputation of our credit on Germany German No o country would agree to such treat treat- meat ment Andre Tardieu In Clemenceau's new paper the Echo National strikes a similar note In a a two-column two editorial editorial editorial edito edito- rial he blames America and American financiers for almost every ill existing in Europe America knows very well we cannot cannot can can- not DOt give them fifteen billion gold francs he asserts and ends endl by concluding con concluding coO con eluding the debt refunding bill as absurd absurd absurd ab surd I i I II I I I |