New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Berlin Plans
New Offer
ToPay Allies
DIR. Simons Urges Pro-
posal That Would Cap
italize Cermany's Re-
sources and Aid France
By Wireless to The Tribune

SopSliSHI' lSAl. NeW YORK Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, March 1S.-The German
government looks forward to meeting
the Allied premiers at new conference
ON reparations with full program for
the payment Of Germany's war bill. In
stead of having only figure to offer as
the limit which the Berlin government
can pay, the Germans will present to
the Allies comprehensive plan of pay
ment.
The government remains firm in it's
conviction that the penalties imposed
ny the Allies must be endured. Even
should the blockade of German ports
be reestablished by the Entente fleets,
Germany expects to hold out. The Min
lister of Food has advised Chancellor
Fehrenbach that the country's food
supply will last till the next harvest
without difficulty and that there may be
a surplus.
Would Capitalize Nations Resources
DR.. Walter Simons, Foreign Minister.
reviewing the situation Wednesday be-
fore the tariff committee of the Ma
tlonal Economic Council, pointed out
that, in view of the inevitableness of a
new conference with the Allies on
reparations, Germany would profit by
going to that meeting prepared to pre-
sent plan that would capitalize all of
the nations resources and turn them
to the reparations account. By this
means he hoped to prove his sincerity.
|. The more calmly we survey this sit
uation," said DR.. Simons, "and the more
firmly we keep our nerve the better we
Will be able to meet conditions as they
arise. The German economic system
must be made capable of withstanding
storm of punitive measures and Of
escaping great dangers like increases in
taxation. Meanwhile, the government
must make positive preparations for
coming events. Our opponents method
of fixing the payment of the war bill in
annuities over q long period has re-
suited in fiasco. The question now
will have to be approached from a diff
ferent angle.
Reconstruction Basis Of Plan
"A reconstruction scheme must be
made the central point Of Germany's
new proposals to the Allies. The pay
ment of the war indebtedness must rest
on that idea. A detailed plan for the
restoration of the destroyed districts
of Northern France must be drawn up.
But even that will not be sufficient to
get the European economic system out
of the slough in which it is caught.
We must find other means of alleviat-
ing, If possible, Frances urgent needs
tor capital. That can be done only with
German labor, which can be pledged as
security for a loan with which to meet
Frances financial needs.
"On these points we must make
preparations so that when the time
comes for resuming our seats at the
conference we shall bring forth fully
worked out plan for the payment of our
war debts. 1t is absolutely necessary
that we do something along this line,
Tor the Allies ran aground with their
annuities plan, which now can never be
realized"
Split Over Admission of Guilt
The struggle going on in Germany
to determine whether the German peo-
pie should renouncc their confession
signed at Versailles that the Kaiser
started the war has started reactions
in the Reichstag.
Opinion there seems as divided as it
is in the country at large. Some mem
bers argue that Foreign Minister ST.
mons took the right stand when he
sought to deny Germany,s RESPONSE
bility at the conference in London,
while others contend that the evidence
in the case was against the Berlin war
lords.
In the Reichstag debate yesterday
the Socialists urged the government to
come out and admit Germanys guilt,
but the reactionaries denied that they
knew of any guilt. Some of the con-
servatives even asserted that Karl
Kautsky's collection Of secret war doc
uments, instead of duplicating the
Kaiser, actually showed that he was
blameless. This Interpretation of
Kautsky's work brought fire from the
radicals, who look upon the documents
as proof of the cause against Germany.
Herr Riesser, of the German Peoples
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