Show Europe Faces Two Major MajorI I Crises 0 as New Year Opens ens I i I I T TARDIEU SAYS FRANCE PAY ITS Bill Statements Made In U S Make This Writer Indignant B ni tD U lonn 11 high CommiSsion CommiSsion- ct c to tile the United States Slates tares Special Dispatch Copyright 1925 1 26 by Consolidated Press Pres Association Does Docs Doc France France really Intend to po pay her war sar debt to America I Andre Andr Tardieu insists Insist emphatically ly It that she h does In his dispatch toda tho th i French er n er Cr expresses resentment at nt the tho Im- Im Implication Im Implication In this country that thul repudiates the principle ot of o her star ar w r debt and nl 0 sar I hi his country will meet met Its It obligations even n though her h r allies mea In the th 1 tar ar arIn In drining InG a II hard bargain PARIS JAn J n I 3 The The negative n K of ot waiting s 's on the subject ot of debt which French ministers hn hate e adopted since tinco 1920 1820 Ia have e been so ao often criticised by this writer 1114 th lh he feels teela entitled to lo speak Iran fran ran bout about the Iho press campaign eJ waBe Prance In America the past pst week 1 ho campaign 1 na nadu due du either cither to 10 an astonishing fri fri- tri surprising anti anti- French anil-French 01 or to a I French prejudice In either ese case it II I Is extremely regrettable American n newspapers make nuke tao t points against I Minister s 5 recent balance balanco sheet hoet Th The first Is that he makes maken a 11 mere memorandum o of the sat wai al debts citing the thc and ond e certain phrases Orly ele cle plucked from the context conI ext are re heid up III to criticism Tho rho Is made mad that France repudiate repudiates the th very principle of ot th the debts debIt UM The first the reply is 18 I easy y ca i ithe the the amount of o the Frt debt as ae s was sas a true with the British debt cannot be b koo known koon n until an agree agree- agreement agreement ment Is l reached on the tile lion and ant It is l I therefore impossible to 10 announce It sooner As A to the second point It I Is re regrettable that the sentences quoted sere ere selected For a 0 few line lines farther on one ono may red read Jo rance will silt III never repudiate SUY contract she sh has ha signed and nd s 's uI III al atsas 11 8 hold hoid her acred cred While on th tho last lii t page is 18 I till thin conclusion Ve e late haic a policy of o I which recoils n colis before no sac sac- sacrifice to Insure Inure the respect of I rance s signature and to main malD maintain taits intact her cherished reputation for honest IO n 21 STE JILt Colonel George Bane Har former ambassador to Great Grent Britain sho h la is In a state late of h and those who ho though they are usually more moro calm hll hate ha c e folio cd hIm would have done better belter to tha hate h c read the whole holo statement be be- be before tore bo-tore fore heaping maledictions oil France CIt c cIt It the th French minister of oC tl- tl nanc fl-nanc nance In hi his historical reum olt d upon the nature of Francs debt to America and d while declaring that France Frane ll pay remarked that the Iho money lit III Inthe the last onal went for tor the tho et ec ex expenses IIII I pense of Americas America's covering army ormy he only repeated lh the tho common observations which were made many times not only In I lance but In America As A early as tt the 1919 1 1 pence peace con con- con conference ferenee ference various solutions were pro pro- proposed pro pro-po posed tl The joint assumption of ha- ha lia liabilities reparations based upon population and ond wealth and a din divis division ion of ot the debt according to the tho numbers of men lost by tho the varIous I countries In the thear th war sam And It sas Americans American like Bernard Dernard who first pointed out the difference bet between aen fighting righting dol- dol dollars dol dollars lars tars and nd non-combatant non dollars ST P IN Il l LIMBO U Is It now nolY forbidden to recall these facts Must Muni 1 the lie ho whole hole past bo be rubbed out and ond only the th mat mat- matter matter mat matter ter of Frances France's France debts debt remain In e e last lait five sears ears cars Franco France has haa scrupulously paid the tho United t tes 20 yearly for the surplus American war tar stocks although sho suffered heavy losses lops on them ow- ow owIng owing ow owing ing to the th depreciation of the 11 ench exchange for or which th the Saxon Saxon Anglo countries have hav their share har of responsibility t W hat right ha to ae- ae accuse cus ac-cus cuse I 1 ranee today of attempting to void avoid making payments payment on the consolidated war wr debts debt V when then ben the tho consolidation agreement ha ba snot been signed las Has It been forgot forgot- forgotten tn ten tell also Ico that when the financial clauses claua of the Versailles treaty were Franco France could easily ha have e paid war wr debts debt on SOlo sole condition that Germany for tor ht she he sh had destroyed 7 It If Ger- Ger Germany Ger Germany many hasn't paid it Is partly thanks to the allies and their as- as as associates sedates The Tho fundamental of the Briand and Poincare cabinets was wa In not raising tho the debt question at tb the Caine am mo tim time they ac ac- ac the amputations llon of tile the debt proposed by the lh An An- An Smon An to countries hut But these mistakes Injured no DO one on except Franco France und and hould l not ool lie be b held h agaInst Franc by tile tie forein pre press rUI CG WILt WILL I Must wo so 0 Frenchmen conclude that behind this thin campaign Is the tho desire to impose on trance France a sort of foreIgn tutelage such luch uch as Ger Ocr Germany Germany many I bad faith made mad It necessary necessary sary ary to Impose on Germany It If such luch uch is I the Idea It must mu t I be e said Id Aid now low that all n will In In- In Indignantly rebel against It I mince II ready to negotiate the tho th consol consolidation and nd will execute It faith faith- fully faithfully but It will nt 01 accept a tl- tl fi financial Those Then who she helped to diminish her r credits credit should calmly sit elt lt do don donow n now nov to a friendly discussion of o th the based ba td these reduced upon credits upon which the tho debts debt can cnn be b paid An agree agree- meat nt would bo b my ray on such uch a bUll basis but threats i And nd can caD only make mak It harder |