Show international insincerity when a sound business noeda needs financial accommodation it borrows barrows money on proper security from another and more diore prosperous business the time cornea comes for payment ind and tho the first business busl nesa asks aska for an extension extension at 0 ehno on tho the grounds that it Is unable to the money from its business then the tha creditor and debtor meet and talk tho the matter over on a purely businesslike basta basis A mutually fair nere emont la Is reached dut but when two nations become creditor and debtor the result la Is vory very different business i methods are forgotten for gotton politics rears its head the debt Is made a 4 plank la in political platforms it Is wrangled over and settlement blocked for or purely political reasons that Is the trouble wita altu the war debt problem dinst ud of being treated as it a matte of banking it has boon been turned into a political football tho the decision of france not to pay after her premier had bad worked to save his count rys credit was waa an entirely political do decision didon having nothing to do with tho the fi ioro of the debts france indeed Is in Wf arbetter position to pay than either italy or n england both br nial i promptly although grudgingly the war debt question should be considered by a business commis stan aloni made up of men who understand the problem in all its phases it should bo be immune to political influence then it will got somewhere |