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Show HAMMERS THE TABLE GETS ACTION The positions occupied by Chas. C. Dawes and O. D. Young, as members of the American committee of the Reparations Commission, Commis-sion, working out a plan to rehabilitate German finances, are unique in the world's history. The American members of this committee are paying their own expenses in Europe, are not obligated to any foreign power and are not hampered through fear of over-stepping some point of diplomatic etiquette. The neutrality and independence of both men has made them outstanding figures in this work for world re-hablitation. re-hablitation. Unconcerned with political expectations and anxieties of the various European governments, they have been able to play a dominant part in shaping the course of the experts' work. Dawes puffing his pipe and occasionally hammering the table, makes his points efficiently and keeps the committee seeking a purely pure-ly business solution. Young coolly handles the matters as though he were dealing with an ordinary business problem in the board room of a corporation. The keen directness of the men has inspired confidence and also admiration. Five years of political jealousness and intrigue have almost wrecked Europe. A few weeks of business consideration of its problems by competent men will evolve a business-like solution of the questions at issue, which European kings, president or premiers will not dare disregard. The activities of Dawes and Young are having a greater effect on Europe today than the work of any American since Woodrow Wilson. |