Show WE ALL SMILE it is really amusing to watch the antics of the european governments in their insane desire to induce us to can cancel the war debts debt they owe us only a paltry eleven billions of dollars about every thirty days they concoct cone octa a new scheme and spring it upon the american people first they bemon angly admitted that they could not pay for many years if at all next they are quite sure they could not pay and then they suggested that rich america should cancel the debts failing in these efforts they talked loudly of repudiation when they found that such talk was closing the door to further loans from us they beat a hasty retreat and heroically announced their intention to pay A little later we were invited to various conferences on debts and reparations with the same result nothing doing then with a great flourish they grandiloquently advocated a general forgiving of all war debts and bedara reparations knowing full well that in such an analysis uncle sam would be paying the cost of the world war As a last resort they openly advocated and partially entered a combination to coerce the american government and bend it to their heir i will now chev are wonterina wonder won derina iniz how to recover from the MCI kick which mr hoover administered to them when he bluntly announced that the united states government could not be coerced or intimidated that europe would be expected to pay its debts in full the next chanter chaiter in this satorv of perfidy is due to appear in about thirty days schedule time |