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Show PACTS ASSURED, ; OWENS ASSERTS PARIS. Feh 20. (By tho Associat-I Associat-I ed Press ) "in my opinion I am cor-jtaln cor-jtaln the senate will ratify, virtually unanimously, un-animously, the treaties and conventions slKned at the recent Washington conference." con-ference." said United States Senator! Owen Of Oklahoma, replying tb queries quer-ies rnndc by the Journal Des Debates) find published Sunday, Concerning the' allied war doMs to the United States government. Senator Owen Is quoted! as saying: "I think that America will postpon from 30 to 50 years tho debts upon which European debts will become, due, fixing the rate of Interest at tr ree per cenL "American? already are too heavily j taxed ever to agreo with any member j of congress who should favor a cancellation can-cellation of the foreign debt." Senator Owen Is in Europe to study, j on the ground, whether a federal re-' servo loan measure of $3,600,000,000 which the senator proposed to the! senate January 4, la feasnble. I BENCH OBJECTION PARIS. Feb. 20. Agrcemn'i reached by the Washington conference! are attacked by Lieutenant C"olonM Reboot Re-boot In an article published In opinion! an important weiklv publication con-j ducted by Under Secretary of State Colrat. While he concluded his article ar-ticle by saying: "Let us not ratify the I Washington treat los. ' the writer de-' clares he doe.s not wish the conventions1 I definitely reiecfed. He would have I them serve as a basis for fresh ne-I ne-I gotlatlon Colonel Rehoul points out that the Versailles treaty left Germany with a1 fleet that cannot be ncgleated. andl that the Germans might be able to carry on argreLsive warfare along the! Rhine. He assert that French troop! coming from Africa might he delayed through an If al!an-SDnIh agreement. Colonel Reboul axprefsej r?gret over the "unreasonable" French demands at Washington', and refers to the ' rid-Iculous rid-Iculous claims" which seemed to (,.. . a desire on the part of France to coin- mmmm pete in a navy wav with Great Britain. BbBBbV |