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reparation payments she must make to
the European allies, are other asser-
lions made by NJ. Tardieu.
These assertions, plus many other
facts and figures. which are based
strictly upon German statistics, tend TO
give greatly added strength to the re-
cent declaration of VI. BRAND the
French premier, that Germany is album
dainty able to pay the 226 billion
marks gold demanded by the allies,
and that unless she does pay promptly
she will feel "a firm hand grip her by
the collar" In other statements by M.
Tardieu, who sat in all the peace con-
ference debates as the confidential aid
of NJ. Clemenceau in his treaty argu-
ments with Woodrow Wilson and
Lloyd George, may be found basis for
the recent action by the administration
at Washington in emphatically notify
ing Germany that the United States
stands solidly back of the allies in their
demands upon the central empire.
In a chapter devoted to What Ger
many Must Pay" NJ. Tardieu. whom
Col. f. NJ. House has characterized in
a foreword to the volume soon to be
brought out, as the only nearly indis-
pensable man at the conference" pic
lures the steady and scientifically pre-
meditated German destruction of In
dustries in France. the removal into
Germany of stock and manufactured
goods, r=w materials, machinery and
essential equipment, and then tells in
detail of the gradual merging of con-
flicting views of the allies in the mat
ter of reparation into the final unani-
nous attitude expressed by Lord Cum
life in these words:
"Germany's ability to pay exceeds
anything shown by our study. What
Germany does not pay, the allies, at
tackled by her, will have to pay"
Lord Cunliffe, who acted as chair
man of the subcommittee on repara-
tions of the conference, NJ. Tardieu as
serts, believed and never ceased to
express the opinion shared by all who
know and think that, for a payment
distributed over a sufficient period of
time-fifty years, for instance,-Ger-
many will have resources infinitely SUI
perior to those that any examination
of her situation Immediately after the
war would make it possible to dis
close or an ticipate."
In a succeeding chapter under the
title, How the Allies Will Be Paid"
the author deals with Germany's pre-
war production and consumption as
compared to her production and con-
sumption in the early months of last
year. and again quotes Lord Cunliffe
as saying:
Germany, responsible for the de-
struction caused by the war, must i'm
pose upon herself restrictions in order
to repair it. She must by such restric-
lions maintain herself as an exporting
country to meet the payment Of her
reparation debts"
Citing as arfSnstance how Germany
extravagantly~ is using coal that
should be made available for export
the writer goes on to sum up the sit
uation g follows:
Remember that in May, 1920. the
exports of Germany exceeded her i'm
ports. And then notice that on every
page Of the German newspapers there
are signs of an industrial and COM
mercial revival to which the ADVERTISE
ments, If no other proof We're forth
coming, would testify. Everywhere
there are advertisements for goods,
motors. glass, machinery. trucks The
business advertising OF the Frankfurter
Zeitung is double what it was before
the war. Business that was slack dur
ing the year that followed the armis
tice. is reviving from one end of Ger
many to the other. The increase of
output leaves no room for doubt. Re
strictions are at present dependent
upon the will of the consumer. Ger
many has now in hand and will con-
tinue to have, in increasing degree. the
necessary means for the payments that
she must make. The picture which she
drew at the international conference at
Spain and Brussels is camouflage. 1t
is the duty of the allies to establish
the truth
What conclusions are we to draw {?
do not profess to be a political econo-
mist. say only that when a man goes
so far as to assert that German can
not nay in thirty years more thin .
OOO.OOO,00O pound s 10000 million
francs at the highest 1920 exchange)
he oversteps the limits of permissible
tomfoolery and is only making fun Of
Germany's victims"