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Show I TO OFFER WAR PAYMENT PLAN EUROPEAN POWERS INVITED TO MAKE ATTEMPT TO SETTLE REPARATION PROBLEM Bankers Are Ready to Advance Loan To Berlin; Government Attitude Atti-tude on Collections More Lenient " Washington. Tho Unit ml States, as tho outstanding movo In its plan to avert a collnpso in the old world, Is about to Invito tha European powers to make n final nttorapt to settlo the Mormon reparations problem, It was learned from the most authoritative sources horc. Tho "plan" of tho United Htatcs for Intervention In tho European sltun. lion, which has filled two continents with axcltomont and anticipation, part. ly because of the doop mystery surrounding sur-rounding It, can now bo revealed. It follows: m Holleveing that reparations Is tbo Ik 07 to tho present Eoroponn crisis, tho Unltod States will pntrlclpnte In n commission or somo othor form of official of-ficial Inquiry to establish an exact (Iguro for Gormany to pay. It would be a figure that would constitute Just reparations for tho war on amount that would bo up to Germany's capacity ca-pacity to pity, but not beyond. 1 If n settlement of tho reparations problem con bo otfocted by an n clement cle-ment among tho European powers on uch a figure, tho United States can Rive assurancos that American bank . cf ,r erB "tond ready to advnnco n loan, ftf with the proper securities, sufficient y. to put Germany on bor foot and start i-' tier towards amortization of tho In. damnify. Finally, tho United Stat 03 govern- tnent is willing to adopt a mora Ion. ,'ft .cnt policy on tho quoatlon of collec- 'M lion of tho alllod war dobt to tnls rim country: That Is, It Is roady to con. JR sldcr tho obligations of each of tho ftj debtor coutrlos on tholr own morlts, 4 granting oro lonloncy In tho forms of ' m colloctlon to tlioso countries less able rQ& to pay, |