Show France and England Pass Buck to States 1 I SOME LIGHT THROWN UPON CO COMPLICATED DEBT STATUS THE T lIE tentative reached at London In the pst past week weel for 1 a of Frances France's war debt to Great Britain Is the outstanding topic of oC discussion In Europe at the tho moment I IL also po possesses unusual Interest to the American taxpayer er be- be because because cause of oC the bearing I it ma may havo on the debt settlement th States probably wi will make malu with France thIs to simple the had demanded abut about a year ear front from France which offered to pa pay on only I half that amoun amount The compromise reached cals calls for 6 62 yearly carly payments of oC cacti cach The rate of Interest as as cut from 3 2 to per pcr cent cent of oC pa payIng to Great BritaIn France wll wIIl pa pay only This agreement Is subject t of course to ratification hy by the o governments of GIe Grett BritaIn ane and France and Is con con- upon the terms given by the United States States I IC does make similar concessIons concessIons- the American Io government not I It Is not disposed to It do-It wil be In t the he att- att attl- attl tude of having blocked a settlement of the whole which 11 Is retard retardIng In the economic rehabilItatIon of Europe and of the world But Dut the States sees secs no reason why It should cancel an any part of Fra nce's debt to her and does docs not admit that pa payment ment In ful full would exceed that country's oa- oa to 0 pay par I It Is InterestIng to note the wide divergence In toward th the n agreement In England and In France Francc as reflected In the today of A. A G. G Gardiner the Ireat great English liberal and Andre Tardieu the tho French statesman and Mr Ir Gardiner concedes that hat JI M. M out maneuvered his English conferees but explains that public opinion I Is re- re h ed It at a settlement at any price itt I ta takes es the position ton that itt itt- 1 lost snore more Ihan II h gained through I a reduction In the amount by agreeing that Frances par payments shou should d not be made contingent upon haL hat France received from Germany under the Dawes plan still another and view one that coincides wih with that heM held here In the United States contained In William llam Birds Bird's dispatch from Paris I Is that both France Frane and England have pa passed ed the buck to the States States |