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Show oo MORATORIUM FOR EUROPE Back from Europe, after a tour Lasting Last-ing weeks. Congressman Ira C. Cop ley of Peoria, 111., favors a moratorium on international obligations for a pe- j riod of two years. He says that if ! France insists on the full reparations ; ' iom Germany, as provided for by tbe ersailles treaty. Germany will b-placed b-placed on such a low plane of wages and living as to drag down all competing compet-ing countries, as Germany will be orced lo sell its goods abroad and to do. so must undersell and maintain its export trade at whatever sacrifice is ! necessary. ('ongressman Copies admits the northern part ot France is shattered and there should be reparations, but he contends the award Is too great for j Germany to beHr without bringing about a lowered standard ol Ihlng and an industrial condition which would prove a menace to our present clvlllza lion This vie-w is one lending lo prove how closely related and how interdependent interde-pendent are the nation of the world !i . i ' oo |