The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-03-22
BRAND PUTS BASIS
0FLEVY ON BERLIN
Premier, in Exclusive N. \.
Herald Interview, Asserts
Germans Gave Facts.
DEFENDS ALLIES COURSE
Declares Germany Cannot Get
L. S. sympathy by Eyading
Sacred Obligations.
ny LAURENCE HILLS.


Special Cable to the NEw York HERMp.
Copyright, 1921. bv THE NEW YonK HEnaLp.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, March I'll.
In an exclusive interview given TO
THE New York HERALD to-day Premier
BRAND defended the action OF the
Allies in the London reparations con-
ference and insisted that the payment
OF the German debt, fixed at 226, ,000,-
100000 marks gold. had become a
question Of international morality. He
expressed the firm belief that Ger
many's hopes of winning America to
her side, as was emphasized in the
German policy in the London confer
ence, would not succeed.
1T will not be in seeking 10 escape
her most sacred financial obligations
by rough materiallsm." Premier
BRAND said. that Germany can ac-
quire the sympa thy OF the American
people. whose foreign policy has al
ways been inspired by the highest
idealism.'
The interview was the first OF IT.
Kind that " BRAND has accorded TO AN
American journalist and was given two
days after Rene Viyiani left France on
his special mission 10 America. In IL the
French Premier stressed two interesting
points-first. that the Paris reparations
figures were not reached haphazardiy,
but after long and patient investigation
a har lar u-f4h
themselves TO determine Germany's ca
pacity 70 pay, and ;hst, whatever the re-
suit Of the Upper SiicSla plebiscitc may
be. those figures were. IN l'rcuch eyes. the
irreducible minimum and, secondly,
that Germany herself had furnished the
precedent for the allied sanctions in the
course she pursued IN Venezuela In 1902.
Explains Frances Position.
Replying to TIE New YonK HERALD
correspondents request for an explana-
tion OF Frances position since the Lon
| don conference, Premier BRAND said:
THE measures OF coercion taken in
| London were for the purpose OF oblig-
ing Germany to respect the engagements
she had signed two years before and
which spared her from invasion and
ruin. Either by her own viii or by force
Germany viii have to honor her sigma
ture and repair the evil she caused in
the fullest measure her resources VIII
permit There Il IN this a question of
international morality 10 which world
opinion viii not remain Indifferent.
with view to fixing once and FOR
sll time tho sums which must be paid
by Germany in reparation. the Allies
proposed compact 10 the German Gov.
ernment-a forfeiture which. 70 France
especially. represented very consld.
erable sacrifice. IN the face of this
generous offer. which was made with
the hope OF peace. Germany took TO
London figures which. as is now known.
merited neither discussion nor exsml-
nation. TO Judge how little serious
these propositions we're Il Is enough
to remember tnat n an interval of
three days. uron q simple threat from
the Allies. Dr. S,mons German 'tor-
eign Minister and head Of the IierHn
delegation 90 tho reparauons confer
ence) trcbled The total 81 the tive M
itlal annuitics which had been presented
by him as constituting the extreme
limit OF his country's (ReichsJ capacity
TO pay.
1T Is easy 70 reply 10 Germauv's
lamentations over hor present misery
BY recalling the growing number of
her officials. the feeblenesa of her
taxes. the prosperity OF her industrial
establishments. the increasing fortunes
OF her capitalists and tho waste of
which the Berlin administration n inily
giving new proofs. The German TAG.
payers are not paying damages q Hel-
gium and northern France. but under
a Law voted last month they are hand
ing 100000 marks TO the treasury OF
the German political parties under the
pretext Of reimbursing the cost OF print.
ing the election ballots.
Figures BASED on solid Grounds.
"The figures Of the Paris accord BY
the Allies were not fivcd hapha zaryliy.
yes,igation, even the indications fur
tho Brussels conference. FOR example.
being utilized iu fINing the reparations
SUM I can. moreover certify that iu
the calculations ~ Germany's capacity
10 nay tho payments were fixcd with a
consideration Of the most unfaNorshle
conditiors-that Is u aay. after allow
Continued on Second pn0c.
MORE ihsn a thousand fsi0rns IRON one
uotn wanted AdN fw The Fiurufd. See ton