Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15
SAYS GERMANY
IS ABLE To PAY
Can Meet Future Financial
Obligation, Says Andre
Tardieu in His Book.
BY GEORGE II. MANNING
washington Correspondent of the
Evening News)

WASHINGTON, April 15-Ger-
rrany Is well able to meet her pres
ent and future obligations under the
reparation clauses of the Versailles
treaty and any plea of national pow
erty is plain deception, 1t is charg-
ed by Andre Tardieu in his forth
coming book THE Truth About the
Treaty" .
That there is a business revival
from one end of Germany to the
other; that every page of the Ger
man news papers bar advertise
meuts which indicate great COM
mercial and industrial activity;
that restrictions are dependent only
on the will of the consumer, and
that the increase of output leaves
no doubt hat Germany 10Y has in
hand and will continue to have IN
increasing degree, the necessary
means for the PREPARATION payments
she must make to the European
Allies are other assertions made by
M. Tardieu.
These assertions plus many other
facts and figures, which are based
strictly upon German statistics tend
to give greatly added strength to
the recent declaration of M. BRAND
h French Premier, that
is abundantly able to a 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 a
in all peace conference debate as
h confidential aid of Nj. Clemen-
ceau in his treaty arguments with
woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George,
may be found a basis for the re-
-~ -at;1n Iu fhn administration
at Washington in emphatically no.
tifying Germany that h United
States stands solidly back OF the
Allies in their demands upon the
Central Empire.
In a chapter devoted to "What
Germany Must Pay" NJ. Tardleu,
whom Colonel T.. NJ. House has
characterized In a foreword to the
volume soon to be brought out, as
the "only nearly indispensable man
G. the conference" pictures the
steady and scientifically premedi-
tated German destruction OF indus
tries in France. the removal into
Germany of stock aAd manufacture
ed goods raw materials, machinery
and essential equipment and then
tells In detail of the gradual merg-
ing of conflicting views of the Allies
In the matter OF reparation into the
final unanimous attitude expressed
by Lord Cunliffe In these words:
"Germany's ability to pay exceeds
anything shown by our study. What
Germany does not pay, the Allies,
attacked by her. will have to pay"
Lord Cunliffe, who acted as chair
man of the subcommittee on rep
arations of the conference, nj. Tar
d!eu asserts "believed and never
1888 - 1~nraoS tho Anipjnn ali q y.nd
~ all who know and think that, for
payment distributed over a suff-
Client period of time-ffty years,
Tor MISUNDERSTANDING will have
infinitely superior to those
that any examination of her situa-
ton Immediately after the war
would make it possible to disclose
or anticipate"
In a succeeding chapter under
the title How the Allies Will Be
Paid" the author deals with Ger
many's pre-war production and
consumption as compared to her
production and consumption In the
early months of last year. and
again quotes Lord Cunliffe as say
irg:
Germany, responsible for the de-
struction caused by the war must
impose upon herself restrictions
in order to repair 1t. h must
by such restrictions maintain her
self as an exporting country to meet
the payment of her reparation
debts"
Citing as an instance how Ger
many e~xtravagantly is using coal
that should be made available for
export; the writer goes on to sum
up the situation as follows:
ssP ap,ar,yhoy that in Nav tQc0
the exports of Germany exceeded
her imports. And then notice that
on every page, of the German news
papers there are signs of an indus
trial and commercial revival to
which the advertisements, if no
ether proof were forthcoming,
would testify. Everywhere there
department heads travellers. Ev-
etywhere there are advertisements
goods. motors, glass, machinery,
trucks. The business advertising of
the Frankfurter Zeitung IS double
what is was before the war. Bust
ness that was slack during the year
that followed the armistice. Is re-
viving from one end of Germany
to the other. The increase of out
put 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-
xfnue to have in increasing degree.
/the necessary means for the pay
ments that she must make. The
picture which she drew at the In
ternational conference at Spa and
Brussels is ~camouflage. IT Is the
duty of the Allies to establish the
truth.
'What conclusions are we to
draw? / do not profess to be a po-
htical economist, / say only that
when a man goes so far as to as
sert that Germany cannot pay in
thirty years more than 100000
900 pounds 100000 million francs
at par, or 10000 million francs at
the highest 1920 ~exchange) he over
steps the limits of permissible tom
foolery and is only making fun Of
Germany's victims"