Show I II BRITISH PAPERS EXPRESS VIEWS VIES ON U. U S. S ClAIM LONDON March 13 By the Associated Associated Asso Asso- elated Press Press Although Although Americas America's claim to priority of ot payment for the upkeep of the United States army Inthe in inthe inthe the Rhineland has been been featured In Inthe inthe inthe the news columns the first extended comment appeared only toda today The Daily Dally Chronicle under the caption caption caption cap cap- tion Americas Bombshell says Intrinsically the claim Is not Unreasonable unreasonable unreasonable un un- reasonable and if the practical effect is to make some of our continental friends less zealous to prolong the occupation of or German soil soli this would be quite as much to the taste of British public opinion as to Ameri Amen I can The newspaper admits it may be urged that as the United States is not participating in the treaty of Versailles Versailles Ver Ver- sailles it has no claim to money collected collected collected col col- col- col under that treat treaty and that the themore themore themore more correct connect course would have been to claim it direct from Berlin under its own treaty but thinks the fact tact that America undertook Rhine occupation occupation occupation tion Jointly with the allies does give her some moral claim for Joint The Westminster Gazette using the same headline says that there is not much doubt that every penny the United States takes will have to come out of ot the allies' allies share of the America has already intimated that she things the whole reparations question question question ques ques- tion a proper subject for discussion at Genoa adds the the Gazette and w we may properly assume that this sudden I and unexpected insistence on her rights Is a part of the ot the same policy and that she wishes the curtain finally rung down on the reparations farce Very possibly also she wants to take her troops s away and considers this a subtle way of persuading her European associates to speed the parting all ally This action by the United States compels the allies to face the fact that the cost of occupying German territory territory terri tern tory is altogether out of proportion to toI the debt for which the occupation is security and that the whole scheme of 01 payments and sanctions needs to be substantially revised The Morning Posts Post's Berlin correspondent correspondent correspondent dent says that news of the American demand was received there ther-e with un- un satisfaction at the embarrassment embar embar- rl ment it was likely to cause causo the al air al- lies I The is quoted as saying that the moment has come I for Germany to inaugurate an active foreign policy polley aiming at obliteration o of the treaty of Versailles I i The correspondent ascribes to the I newspaper the statement that Americas America's Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- I ica's antagonism to France being no no longer concealed the German demands demands' are conquering the enemy world In conclusion he quotes Away with control commissions Away with the reparations betrayal Away with the locust plague of armies of occupation Out of your trench Herr Wirth and up to the counter counterattack counterattack counterattack attack |