The New York herald., 1921-01-24
FIXED INDEMNITY
BY GERMANY NOW
BEFORE PREMIERS
President Millerand Said to
Favor Naming Total Now,
Thus Differing From
BRAND.
INFLUENCE OF US. FELT
Statement of FinancierS
Here That Americans Are
Losing Patience at De-
lay Have Effect.
NEED MONEY FROM HERE
Lloyd George With Some Cabi-
net Colleagues and Forty
Attaches Arrive for
Meeting.
NEED MONEY FROM HERE
By LAURENCE HILLS.

Special Cable to THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Jan. %.
President Millerand is taking a per-
sonal hand in the formulation OF
Frances policy at the interallied peace
The President of France is reported
still to be in favor of fixing immedi-
ately the sum to be exacted from Ger
many. disagreeing in this respect with
Premier Brands view as expressed
In the Chamber Of Deputies, that while
fixing the first annual payments 1t
would be better to wait and watch
Germany's industrial revival further
before fixing the total sum.
President Millerand consented at
Boulogne in principle to the fixed sum
idea, and as he has not changed his
views the divergence between his at
titude and that Of Premier BRAND is
causing much speculation as to the
outcome. NJ BRAND fears that he
might lose his majority in the Cham
ber IL the sum is fixed now, unless the
British agree to a figure so high that
It would defeat the purpose of helping
the international situation.
Conference mt the Elysee.
Great interest was attached to Presi-
dent Millerand's action-in calling a
conference in the Elysee- Palace this
morning with Premier BRAND, and
some of the Cabinet Ministers and
other experts. This is believed to re-
veal his attempt at Presidential direc-
ton and is exciting speculation as to
whether he has succeeded in changing
Premier Brands views.
Among those participating in the con-
ference were Philippe J. L. Berthelot,
General Secretary of the Foreign Office !;
Louis Loucheur. Minister for the Lib
Grated Regions Paul Doumer. Minister
of Finance Louis Dubois. president of
the Reparations Commission; NJ. Sey-
doux and Pierre Cheysson, the French
financial experts at the Brussels con-
ference.
Unuuestionably the statements OF
Thomas w. Lamont, Bernard VI. Baruch
and other American financiers cabled
here indicating that Americans are los
ing patience at the failure to fix the
reparations total. and with the impi-
cation of the unfavorable effect this
situation might have upon future Amer
lean assistance, are having considerable
influence.
All Want American Money.
Both the Allies and the Germans are
after American money. Carl Bergman.
head Of the German delegation to Brus-
sells, stressing in an interview that once
the sum is fixed Germany will be able
to obtain financial assistance from
America, which will help her pay the
Allies, while M. Jasper Theunys. for the
Beigians wants the sum named now
for the purpose of securing an inter-
national loan from America, which he
thinks all the Allies would guarantee.
A leading French banker has said. how
ever, that an international guarantee
is impossible. Frances hope lying In get
ting German bonds backed by customs
guarantee or it's equivalent. which she
could hypothecate herself for American
loans.
The battle over the fixed indemnity
sum In raging as II did during the peace
conference. with the worlds financiers
apparently bringing more pressure to
bear than ever to get the amount fixed
at the earliest possible moment
All the delegates are now here, Pre-
mier Lloyd George several members Of
his Cabinet and forty British attaches
arriving this afternoon. Paris is again
full of representatives OF all nations who
were submerged by the peace treaty and
are hoping for amelioration.