Show AMERICAN SOLDIER i BRINGS HOPE TO EUROPEANS I I Pla Plan for Economic Congress I Awakens wakens Optimism in inC C Central States YIE VIENNA A Dec 10 The 10 The proposed trade commercial and financial conference of ot certain of the central states states' of or Europe has bas aroused hope in both political and business circles that It may may bring at at least some degree of or order out of or the present almost chaotic conditions as far faras faras faras as interstate relations are concerned It is alrea already y known as The American Plan in compliment to its author Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- nel Clarence B. B Smith of the United n m te States army t the u unofficial American ca delegate delegate del del- on the Austrian section of at the reparations commission After more than a years year's stud study and first hand investigation of the the- problems of or these countries Colonel Smith said to I the Associated Press I 1 became convinced convinced con con- vinced that the economic life Ufe not only of or Austria but of or all the succession o of states of the old empire can be rehabilitated rehabilitated rehabilitated only by a a- larger measure of goodwill goodwill good good- goodwill will between them and mutual understanding understanding understanding under under- standing of their economic dence BASIC IDEA U J The plan was drawn after atter mud thought and with full realization of th the fact that it must be freed from all aU suspicion suspicion suspicion sus sus- sus- sus of politics My hope is that having having having hav hav- ing once drawn them together in hi common council and with the disinterested advIce of the representatives of Great Britain France and America who will attend onlIn only In an advisory character some of th the I distrust that naturally grew out of or th the political conditions which surrounded the birth of these new states may be dispelled dispelled dis dis- clis- clis and they will realize the necessity aside from all political questions of ot freer free trade and commerce if their economic lif lifs life lifets ts is s to become stabilized Colonel Smiths Smith's plan met unanImous approval by the Austrian commission and andI preparations preparations i for the conference er ere e have be be- I gun It It probably b will be held l i in Bratislava t I slava a city about forty miles from Vienna in Slovakia Czecho and will follow broadly the lines of the Brussels conference REPRESENTATION The states represented except America Franco France and Great Britain will have present present present pres pres- ent one representative of or the ministries of ot finance transportation commerce in industries industries in- in trade and banking Austria and Hungary will be invited to send similar representation The three named first-named I powers will be represented only by their delegates on the reparations commission and then solely in an advisory way As formulated the program suggests I amon the tn to h ha h. lon lAr rl Improvement of financial e l liei relations t s es especially especially especially es- es the transfer of money moner liberty o of using deposits dealing in and banking Possibilities of or expediting expediting- the transfer of merchandise from one state to another another another an an- other or in bond through one state to the territory of a third The system of prohibition of import tion and exportation of certain classes ol of commodities licenses tariffs and excise The system of or discrimination in price as between external extern a and internal trade Communications posts telegraphs ane and telephones As planned panned the Ule active participants in inne the ne conference would include Austria Hungary Italy Poland Slovakia Czecho Slavia Jugo-Slavia Greece and Rumania all of ot which embrace at least portions of the theold theold theold old Hungarian Austro-Hungarian empire and which to o a greater or less extent are affected i by jy the problems the tile Austrian reparations ions section hopes thus to solve I |