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Show pHlLLING TO UNSNARL JUB CM BIMSKMOT IN EUROPE jLch Presiden t Told United States Is Ready to ndertake Settlement of Reparations Question; f Deep Secrecy; i Maintained at White House ! (Dv 'n&'hQ Assocl.it-Premif Assocl.it-Premif rolrcare, it is un-" un-" received Mn Informal ln-Sn ln-Sn the sut,( department in that !hp Ttf-nltcd States is Easider a pn whereby she rthe wtUenfent of the repi .-tion I" "-P0 Interests of Economic .ituatlon in Eu-pfCTON Eu-pfCTON sJ LENT ;GTON. Dcd . 18. A stone ricial lUonca Btll surrounds lion purpose s with regard to aid In th ' ;,rman ropnra-hlnt ropnra-hlnt allow I to escape from ilponslblc officials today ve at boat. It implied that' 5 to th : government's ere to bo made, find was th a warning that most ofi ued conjectures as to that gono wide ht the mark li QLDfPSn: HAD. ipatches. sayflng that Prem-e Prem-e hud been sounded out in-rtth in-rtth a viei to Washington B toward unsnarling the , knot. afforHed a glimpse hod Secretary Hughes Is to brine; Anterli an loflu-ar loflu-ar Thi? "Inlbrmal" meth-roarhlng meth-roarhlng the problem. a! ise spokesman said yester t be conducted "on the j dispatch did not draw of-. of-. from their entrenchments J But it aroused great in-' te,rcst insofar as it reflected the iffl-Cial iffl-Cial attitude in Paris toward the general gen-eral principle of American helpfulness in the emergency. In view of the rltuation that brought about tho Anglo-French reparations deadlock at London. It seems obvlou jthut any American ovortures must bo predicated upon knovlodg that thev would be welcome both in London and Paris. All inquiries concerning the reason for Coloncd George Harvey being summoned sum-moned from London, the unheralded visit of J. p Morgan to Secretary o' State Hughes on Wednesday and thu eonfereneea Secretary Hughes has held this week with European ambassadors, were m. t with the statement that tho Incidents were of no significance. Personal Per-sonal Inquiries along thlb line elicited some official irritation. I 'espite the reticence of government nlfleials to discuss American interven-uon interven-uon In the serious situation now crystalling crys-talling nliroad, there is reason to believe be-lieve the tremendous mor.il Influence of America will shortly be exerted to obtain a reduction in German ropara-t ropara-t ions. The fixed a mount of Germanv's war indemnity is now about $30,000,6oo,i.iuO American diplomats and economb experts ex-perts abroad consider this sum wholly "lit of proportion to Germany's abtl lty to pay and .it tho same time keep her head above water. They hav wnrned that, with the mark now almost al-most worthless a financial crash in Germany by next spring is certain unless un-less relief is forthcoming. |