New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-27
Administration Cannot
Get Teuton Proposals
and Demands of Allies
Within Hailing Distance
Answer to Await
Entente's Views
Washington
Seeks Extent of ANY
Modification i'm Terms
By Carter Field


man rcparations proposals have already
developed into the most serious
dilemma which has confronted the
Harding Administration since it came
into power. The Allies, according to
very strong though unofficial advices,
are dissatisfied with their terms and
unwilling to reopen negotiations with
them as basis. May I, the date on
which the French propose to throw
their armies further into Germany and
occupy at leas. the Ruhr Goa, fields. is
only five days off But despite the
urgent necessity for speed if salts,
factory solution is to be worked out.
there was no hope in sight tonight.
The embarrassment which the Hsr-
dng-Hughes policy has encountered in
It's strong effort to bring about new
negotiations over the question of
reparations lies chiefly in the fact that
while the Administration has indicated
IN the mem morandum sent to Berlin that
IL Deheves the amount of 2eparations
should be scaled down to point whore
Germany can hopefully renew its pro-
ductive activities" it is unable to Get
the proposals and the demands within
mailing distance of each other.
Hughes Calls in Allied Diplomats
Indications Of the distress over +ba
situation were manifest after to-dav,s
Cabinet meeting, despite the fact that
official comment, even of an informal
nature, was refused by those who usu-
aily act as spokesmen on foreign poll
cies. Immediately after the Cabinet
meeting Secretary of State Hughes in.
vlted all of the Allied ambassadors and
ministers to call upon him, and for
the remainder of the day the Secre-
tary was engaged in conferences with
the representatives of the Allies. There
are hints that they manifested their
dlsapproval in these conferences, though
lntlmations that the Allies disapproyed
the German proposals had reached the
State Department prior to the formal
meetings.
If proposals could be obtained from
Germany which entirely satisfied this
government as being the limit which
Germany could be expected to paw. it
is believed that the Administration
might be willing to use pressure in
persuading the Allies at least to re-
open negotiations, but it is understood
that there is strong difference Of
opinion as to whether the latest pro-
posals merit consideration or not.
Called Serious Mistake
On the other hand, there is the de-
ternined view Of a strong element in
the Senate, gathered around a part of
the old rreconcilable group, which be-
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ing a serious mistake in interfering
that being the word members of this
group prefer-in European affairs.
What might be called the Hughes
Hoover victory over the irreconcilable
element in determining the foreign pol
icy, as set forth In the Presidents mes
sage to Congress, still rankles among
the defeated group. They have grown
more and more dissatisfied as the writ
ing of notes with view to bringing
about new negotiations on reparations
point Of II told you so" in discussing
the dilemma which the Administration
has reached
1t was pointed out tonight that if
the Administration determines that the
proposals of Germany are the best that
can be obtained, the question Of the
Allied debts to this country may be
injected into the discussions, with a
view to persuading the Allies to con-
sent to the new proposals.
Seek Light on Notifications
1t is believed, however, that the con-
ferences of Mr.. Hughes with the Allied
| diplomats this afternoon were directed
chiefly not at ascertaining whether the
German proposals were acceptable
this was pretty we'll accepted, it is
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held. but with view to learning what