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Show TO REQUEST CURBS BE PUTJ TABLE FINAL 8HOWDOWN ON CONCESSIONS CONCES-SIONS FRANCE MAY BE WILL-TO WILL-TO MAKE, HELD FOR ACTION State Department Denies Propoca Has Been Forwarded Covering Move This Country Is Willing to Make Washington. Franca soon mny b askod by tho United States to place ail hof cards on tho table. Wlt'i tho success or falluro of the American moo looking toward a so-lull, so-lull, a of the old world's economic crisis virtually banging on tho attitude atti-tude of France, this government Is understood to bo prepurlng to ask 1'roralcr I'olncnro for a definite Btato-mont Btato-mont ns to the utmost concessions ho is willing to muko on repartitions and kindred questions In order to relievo re-lievo tho situation. lIils government roallzes tho 1'oin-care 1'oin-care government faces n difficult political po-litical hltuatlon bocaua of tbo strong demand In Frnuco for tho use of force in tho hopo of compelling tier-many tier-many to pay tho huge reparation figure fig-ure which has boon imposed upon her, nnd tho Inquiry to tho French government wl'l lu propoundod in tho most friendly manner. Tills government has received tho (Icrmnn proposal calling for a commission com-mission of experts, prcforably Americans, Amer-icans, to rovlHu tho reparations down to tho hghPBtposslblo ilguro that (5or-many (5or-many can pay. This proposal whs revealed re-vealed exclusively by tho press and caused unusual lntorcst In official clr-clos. clr-clos. It is beloved that any plan tho Unltod States agrees upon will bo ac-coptnblo ac-coptnblo In tho main to Great Urltaln, thus mnktng It noccssnry to hnrmon lzo as much as possible tho wlda differences dif-ferences foetwoon.,'rnnco nnd dor-many, dor-many, If a solution of tho problem Is to bo reached. Tho plun of this government Is to got tho views of all the powors and then outllno a common ground upon which negotiations could bo opened with tho United States acting as a sort of mediator. Stnto department officials donlod Hint tho Informal discussions botwocn this government and tho ulllos haU reached tho stngo whero a dotlntte Amorlcnn proposal hail been f ram oil, and said horo was no truth in reports re-ports from London that tbo Unltod 1 States at the request by Gorman Chon-1 Chon-1 collor Cuno had proposed an Amort-can Amort-can commission of business men to , rovlso the reparations figure. |