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Show BANKERS SIGN WORLD PLAN MORGAN, MELLON AND EUROPE'S FINANCIAL LEADERS OFFER CARE OF ILLS Involve Remodeling of Tariff Barriers, j President Doubti Effilcacy; Public Opinion hat Been Quick LondonAnother attempt to And a ; cure for tha financial and Industrial difficulties of Europe wus launched j Tuesday In the form of a manifesto i signed by an unusually long lint of ; bankers and Industrialists of Inter-1 national note. Including J. P. Morgan of New York. Every country in Europe Is represented repre-sented among the signatories as well as the United State, through a half dozen well-known financiers, ! The significance of the maniferto is felt to lie more in the weight of its signatories than in its subject matter, which is simply an appeal lor removal of the many barriers obstructing' ob-structing' the restoration of European prewur international trading and exchange. ex-change. A certain air of mystery surrounds the genesis of the document. No one seems to know Just where it originated, although common belief is that it had its origin in Berlin. The fact the manifesto was issued to the Ixindon press through a well-known well-known advertising agency is regarded as unusual, while further comment has been caused by talk of connecting connect-ing it with- the reported formation of a groat banking trust which is said to have intended to use its resources to overcome obstacles thrown in the way of the resumption of European trade by the depreciated and varying vary-ing exchange. |