Show war debts abts refunded to the united states by foreign Nat nations folls i washington Washing tob DC september NS it has only been by the firm fl rm in in existence of 4 calvin coolidge that thu the majori of the foreign debts have been funded for some time after the war there ther ewas was a cleverly organized movement to soft pedal any discussion that would lead to brings ing the question of europe paying its debts to the united unite d states front there was of coure coun e no dis disposition on an the part ot this country to press for immediate payment there was a bighearted european sentiment that europe should be permitted to have a fairly reasonable time in which to recover frum from the ravage of war but there was a disposition di on tl apart e pa rt of some to take advantage of this leniency on the part of the american people and try and relegate to an intense dimness the subject of debts in the hopes bopes without doubt in the minds of some that a mawkish sentiment might ke e evolved that would eventually bring about abndt the ignoring of the billions of that europe owes us when coolidge became president Pies ident he let it become known that thai he intended to bring to theat thea ta of europe eul ope the fact that the 1 money etier aad bo hor howo cowed ahad had come k rac agy ipa yh people abd that t while he had no do intention of af acting in an arbitrary or hasty manner in the matter of the collection of these date deb ts he felt however that it war his duty to the people of the united states to see that some tAn gable arrangements were ware made for the thep payment ayrd ent of the money owed the people of this country the lib attitude of some european statesmen so called has be been enone of evasion and procrastination the r actions have consisted of gestures 11 rather than of concrete doin doings an but bur the president as do the woe of this country appreciated the fact that the people of the several nations io in our deb willingto willing to pay t what they owe neither the president nor the people of the united states have any qu quarrel arrel with the peoples of the old world we believe that the people of foreign nations are honest at heart as are we but the straightforward straight t for forward ward rugged honesty of some of the european politicians is another question |