Show 0 I German Obstinacy I I 4 I ARIOUS developments in connection with the V I financial situation in Germany including th the I depreciation in the value of the paper mark to toa a fraction of an American copper cent tend to I confirm the suspicions expressed several days ago that the Berlin government and the leading financial finan finan- I ci cial l and industrial interests of Germany are engaged engaged engaged en en- in in ina a propaganda campaign that has for it its I object a a revision of the treaty of Versailles anc anca and anda a material reduction in the amount of of reparation I which the defeated nation must pay Following the publication of a number o of I interviews given out by political and finan financial leaders in Germany that Germany would be forced into bankruptcy if the reparations reparation's d demands mands are not reduced comes the declaration of i t German official that perhaps we are headed I for the abyss but then we will drag France down with us and that that means the bankruptcy of all f Europe It has been a well known wn fact that throughout through through- out all aU the conversations and negotiations in connection with the reparations payments the Berlin government and the financial interests o of Germany persistently ignored the invitation of the allied nations for a conference between the German and the allied financiers with a view to agreements n a policy of sound financing for all the nations represented including Ger Ger- many Thus far the Berlin government through the has sullenly ignored any allied advice advice advice ad ad- vice relative to Germanys Germany's financial situation Now however it comes forward with the tile threat I that i if Germany is forced into bankruptcy it will carry down all of Europe with it It is the old policy of German dominance or r obstruction n. n No matter who proposes the Hun disposes remarked a Swedish delegate to the Brussels international conference held last year in in discussing Germanys Germany's financial policy Having lost ost a war that she confidently expected to win Germany now seems determined to win the peace wI |