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Show France Shows Debt Changes Paris Prospects of ratification ol the Washington debt settlement hava so increased during the past few days that talk in the lobbies of the chamber cham-ber of deputies now is turning on its probable majority. The strength of the franc in the past two days is attributed at-tributed to a change in attitude toward to-ward the Mellon-Berenger agreement, and preliminary prophets now figure on 350 votes in the chamber for ratification rati-fication with reservations in the preamble. pre-amble. This would give a clear majority ma-jority approaching 100 in favor of the agreement. The Socialists will present pre-sent a motion to send the accord back to the government with instructions to reopen negotiations with the United J States, but it is thought that his mo- I tion will not be able to muster more I than 150 to 2)0 votes. |