Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-06 | Page 2 | Britain Doesn't Expect U. S. to Cancel Debts

BRITAIN DOESN'T EXPECT U. S. TO CANCEL DEBTS LONDON, Feb. 5. In comment on the statement made at Birmingham yesterday by J. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, that the British government hod proposed a cancellation of all inter-allled debts, but that the project was unacceptable to America, the Westminster Gazette says: 'We must suppose the American government concluded that opinion In the L'nited States would not have sanctioned sanc-tioned an undoubtedly heavy sacrifice for what we call International, but what a great many Americans consider consid-er purcl European objects. "It. perhaps, is not within reason to expect that the American people should all .at once be converted to this very practical application of world solidarity."