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Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 HA TCHED UP FOR GENOA - Conference .is merely a political gesture, not an es-attempt to improve European conditions, was quite well the first session last Monday, when the attitude. of France, iind other participating nations, toward, the. agenda .was Russian Soviet delegation apparently hoped .to introduce, iand everything from. cannon, balls, to disarmament and thereby ed a tilt with the French delegation that threatened to result, the Genoa at dis-!fr- iplete deadlock. . he ..... fact that this . authorities .the country is not d prevents the conference from being as broad as it .might were. there. But. this does not. mean that had we been among that-aearnest enort.wouia have ueenmaue .to adjust f;sent are almost terrifying in their seriousness for war ravaged . If we. had consented toi sit down with, Q Not by any means. jst excellent gentlemen, economic reapproachment would have ' Jsible only in the further attempt to saddle the war penalties, r measure, .. . upon .this. land. British Treasury office is directly responsible for the . latest m of this economic solution planned for Genoa. .The Inter-tis 65 billion, gold marks,, of which 40 .billion is due this 20 billion to Great Britain and 5 billion to. France. Russia Bolshevik i attributes, is left, entirely, out of. the computation. irding.to foreign , ot vjt IJritish office proposed that if Germany would assume this 65 ie total indemnity of 132 billions would be reduced to 122 bil- I1 pressing this plan upon the Germans, emphasis is placed 3 65 billion item ; that this country would not actually demand Jlion share under the cut and that the Allies would do likewise Nance of 25 billion. - peace-makin- 3-y- ear -- British-America- self-styl- ,Ess sophisticated terms the United States would loose ten .bilr but while the Allies would cancel 6j4 billion dollars, they $11 have coming from the indemnity payments, more than jwllars. And this is not all. To make it possible and certain llj billions she was to float an in-- il any part of this 11 loan, this floating to be done in the United States. The .office was also solicitous enough to suggest that these reduc-ib- e total German indemnities would inspire this country to the loan because such a grand and internationally jeonomic adjustment had. been finally figured out! ifus is only half of the astounding insult to the intelligence of SBiany pay as-gbuid- en , 'ii ports to appease certain elements over here, it was at the same time proposing to Germany that it assume the British debts, and of course the interest payments, which in turn it suggest will never have to be paid at all. . This is repudiation with a vengeance and it is nothing short of repudiation whether made by the British empire or a mere American citizen who invested so much in Liberty bonds and other war financing, plans, that today he cannot lift the mortgage from the old homestead. Britain has- been guided into this act of duplicity by France. The French government, secretly backing the Turkish Nationalists against g the Greeks, and in violation of their League of Nations, gained such valuable concessions in the Near East that the chief spokes- man of Big Business, Inc. (the British Empire) Mr. Lloyd George, 'had tQ make so many concessions that he. was compelled to forego even the semblance of a sincere attitude toward this country. The notification last week by Lloyd George that Great Britain will not renew the stipulation relative to interest payments by France on its debt to that country, is not only a necessary procedure, if we are to actually demand our interest payments, but at the same time it provides a powerful trump card for the British Premier against further undue aggression on the part of France. The French are in the Genoa conference, evidently, with .the intention of monopolizing everything and the capitulation of the British in the Near East has inspired this attitude. Failing in; an effort to compromise with the French' the British will fall back on this country. This is the real source and real motive n entente propaganda now become so preof the new valent especially in our larger cities and among our smart set. The Genoa conference hardly appears to be of any real economic value to the world; it is a contest between French imperialism and British toryism. But the painful and imperative necessity of facing realities, across the pond, has been delayed for three years. It will hardly suffer much longer delay. Had the United States gone to Genoa, her delegation would have been feasted, morning, noon and night, upon debt cancellation fodder. Thus was it planned to ensnare us in something almost as vicious and tangible as the Wilson League of Nations, and to actually saddle upon us the entire war debt of the world. ed blue-blood- ed . , n PeoPT?- - JBntish responsibleand so has Churchill -- fordhe statement that British interest money fse f dne( debt would be paid this year. Churchill made this Cn car an( American news agencies distr jery V.ted the. announcements twice so far Treasury has been . ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF TARIFF JUGGLING. Cr-.'mo- ns semi-offici- al , even cla; v.ing ln American that the larger portion of. the interest .money banks. The third 1922 statement alleges that s money will be actually paid this fall. The. duplicity of the easury Churchill, et al., is that while helping disseminate re Evidently the senate finance committee was beguiled into sidetracking American valuation for a complicated plan, giving extraordinary powers to. the President to protect American manufacturers, farmers and workers, as a last resort, by the blandishments of foreign and domestic importers, who realize, perhaps, better than does the bemused senatorial committee, that the American market is the greatest in the world, The tariff, American valuation, rates. of exchange, may seem for- - |