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Show BANKER WOULD 1 CANCEL DEBTS Participation in Conference at Genoa Also Held Source of Relief .NEW YORK. Feb. 10 PartiHpa tlon in the Genoa economic onfer ence and cancellation of the allied war debt, both to be undertaken onlv v. to ii world conditions show Improve ment, Thursday were suggested b Otto II. Knhn. banker, as measure bj win. h America could relieve th universal economic and social "mess.' Ho spoke at the nnnual meeting ol the National Institute of Social Sciences. Sci-ences. CAUSES WEIGHED, die causes of the present situation he said, were "the war, the peace and our own r usedness." r would divide them In this fa:-h-ion, ' he addd, "war. responsibility 10 per CI n( p are, 25 per cent, and our own cuBseanen c- i" r irn. Before canceling w.ir debts lite banker said that the reparation-question reparation-question should be settled under conditions con-ditions which the Germans cdUfd meet, that the budget of all nation be put In a stai.o of equilibrium, tr:ide barriers between nations eliminated elim-inated nnd fordKn i xchnnges stabilized. stabil-ized. Conceinlng the Genoa conference, the I'nlted States should insist he asserted, as-serted, on a free and nnrestrl-i ed JIs- usson and a definite settlement of the Russian quesiion before American Ameri-can delegates took their places at the samp table with Lienine and Trotzky, or their representatives. PREDICTS REVISION. Mr. Kahn said nothing has troubled or cursed the world more than ' the violation of the Wilson stlpula tir n on reparations." "This question must bf settled,'! lie added. ' It is hopeless to think cf a revision of the treaty, but the nat-urul nat-urul forces of circumstances will brinu about such a revision. Amor l a Is in a position and has a wonderful wonder-ful opportunity to aid stricken Europe Eu-rope " Dr. Austin B. Fletchei was elected president and Secretary of Stare Hughe?, honorary president. |