Show Allied Representatives I Taken Into Counsel W WASHINGTON April 23 23 Approval I of the of course th the American government government govern sovern- ment with respect to the reparations controversy is believed to have been indicated by the allied diplomats here I before the dispatch of Secretary Hughes Hughes' reply to the Berlin appeal that President Hardin Harding act as mediator mediator media media- tor and fix the sum Germany must pay pa It became known today that the therman I German request and the American reply were discussed informally by byI the s secretary of state and the I European ambassadors and It Is un understood understood un- un that the foreign envoys were apprised of the character of the American reply In the interim be between between be- be tween the receipt or or- orthe the German memorandum and the sending of the response State department officials were awaiting today the answer from Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin which press dispatches from that city Indicated was about to be made after being placed before the reichstag It Is expected however howe that whatever whatever what what- I I ever proposal is made will be submitted submit submit- I 1 ted first to the diplomatic lives tives here j |