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Show I j THROWN ON METHODS OF BERLIN TO IN II. S. INTERVENTION German Trade Commission Wants American Business Busi-ness Men With Hoover at Head to Study Teuton Industry and Decide How Much Indemnity Can Be Paid I LONDON", Eke 21. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The request made by a German trade commission that a commission of American bu.-dne&s men headed by Herbert Hoover visit Germany Ger-many to undertake B thorough survey sur-vey of economic conditions that would b- used nr. the basis of h new reparations repara-tions treaty, were een here today as perhaps the starting' point ot the flock of rumors as to American Inter'. entlon In the reparations problem Great Britain, it is seml-officially learned, has Informed the American state department i" it.-, consent to such a plan The British government's message sent in response to an inquiry in-quiry from lh' United States, It was said, is expected to be followed by the assent ol France, to which the American government also communicated communi-cated the German suggestion. The proposal was made by a German Ger-man commission headed by Chancellor Cuno to the United States chambi r of commerce, which in turn la understood under-stood to have asked Secretary Hoover to present the plan to a cabinet meet- ( lng. This was done and the matter j passed into the hands of Secretary Hughes. The Germans propose that th American commission determine the extent of Germany's ability to pay ' and assert that they would agree to meet this plan if France and Great Britain approved of the plan. Tu this end Secretary Hughe open d negotiations ne-gotiations with the London and Paris governments. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. (By The Associated Press) German overtures, through Informal channels, tor Amcri-can Amcri-can intervention to obtain a revision of German reparations BCD dulee ri ported In London despab li a oi tht Associated Press, throws the first definite defi-nite light on the method by Which American influence is being drawn into a new attempt at final adjustment adjust-ment of the vexing reparations problem. prob-lem. The next step to be looked for obviously ob-viously is an Indication ol thi Fr( n h attitude on the German proposal that an American economic omtms oon v -view Ge.rnxany'6 present situatiou und esttmato her capacity to pay as a biusis for a new reparations treaty. There is reason to believe that previous pre-vious government reports from Berlin arc of a character to Justlf) hope that if the French should prove agreeable to the proposed plan tor reparations revision, no insurmountable obstacles would remain In the way of an agree-ment agree-ment as to the specific amount Germany Ger-many could and would pay CHANNEL LACKING. A stumbling block in uch an agreement agree-ment up to this time, ofllclals h- re and In Berlin are understood to have felt, has been the lack of a channel for informal preliminary exchange of views between Berlin and Paris Brit - , ish agencies hardly could offer th lr 1 services, as Great Britain Is too fully I committed on reparations views in op- position to the French position to be effective in negotatlons to the Paris government. As the proposal approved by the I Cuno government is e n hi re, It ti p- I resents employment of American coin-mercial coin-mercial and governmental agencies to bring German and French views into harmony. NEW PROPOSALS SHAPED. The share of the chamber of commerce com-merce of the Unitod States In the shaping of the new proposals for adjustment ad-justment of the L'uropcan tangle, it was learned today, dates back to executive ex-ecutive discussion ol the subject by directors of the chamber with President Presi-dent Julius Barnes at the Galveston meeting of the board la6t month. 'Enough promise of success In bringing1 bring-ing1 about a compromise reparations program developed at that meeting to warrant a grant of full powers to Mr. Barnes by the board. Whether the board then had proposals pro-posals of similar business organizations organiza-tions in Germany is not known, but Mr. Barnes and Elliott Goodwin, secretary sec-retary general of th chamber, conferred confer-red at great Nnrth uith Sen-ctary Hughes last week, their visit nyn-jchronlzing nyn-jchronlzing with the many other Incl-I Incl-I dents that served to make It clear that the Washington government had before it some project for settlement of the reparations tangle SIGNEFIC N l SITUATION, ft is recalled here that the Cuno government in Germany rests very , largely for Its support on the industrialist indus-trialist group which presumably In- dudes the commercial and business Interests now moving for intervention interven-tion of American business representatives representa-tives in the reparations problem. As "the task of actual payment of Ger-! Ger-! many's reparations must of necessity fall largely upon this political group. ' ;idded weight is attached to proposals propos-als from that quarter. American observers have reported that without support of the Industrl u-ists u-ists the Cuno government could not stand. |