Evening star., 1922-02-27
W|RTH HOPES US.
!. WILL MODIFY PACT
Versailles Treaty Benefits
Denied, Chancellor Tells
J. Hamilton Lewis.
BIG U. S. LOAN IS DESIRED
Ex-senator Says Leader Is Anxious
I All War Debts Be Paid.
Armies Disbanded.
BIG U. S. LOAN Is DESIRED
BY GEORGE WITTE.


By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright 1872.
BERLIN, February 27.-Germany
still looks to America to have the
terms OF the treaty OF Versailles
modified, said former Senator James
Hamilton Lewis today on the eve
of his return to the United States.
Germany also expects America to
join Great Britain in lending her
enough money to raise the exchange
rate and to stabilize her economic
condition. said the former Illinois
senator.
lawyer representing Americans who
have claims against the German gov
ernment for property destroyed in
northern Europe. and, while he is
carrying back little hope for his
clients to be reimbursed, he bears a
message from the German chancellor
to the American people. appealing
for fair play" from the world.
With Sends Message to U. 8.
The German government through
Chancellor Wirth," said Mr.. Lewis.
wants to say to tbs United States
Germany. that everybody il at work
to help pay the nations debt. that the
armies are disbanded and the people
disarmed. even on the frontier where
there is trouble with Russia, and that
everything is being done to keep
faith with the United States.
while the old military oficials
charge that the United States tricked
Germany with President Wilson's
fourteen points and that after yield
ing through faith in these points Ger
many was denied the benefit of any
of them, her people now understand
that this was not a case of intentional
bad faith. but the result of an honest
contest between political parties for
which the United States Is not to be
blamed by Germany.
Loan From q. 8. Desired.
1T is plain to me that the German
government wants the United States
TO intervene and have the terms OF
the treaty of Versailles modified
Britain has promised to make a loan
to Germany because of its faith in
! the Wirth administration. Germany
hopes that the United States will see
| its way clear to join England and
! add to this loan sums sufficiently
| large to bring German exchange up
higher.
chancellor Wirth expressed the
| fear that IL Germany is permitted to
| be demoralized and her economic fu-
! ture to be shattered it will mean a
catastrophe for all Of central Europe
! and bring financial disaster upon
France. Britain and the United States
Germany is now a stable democracy
and is trying to follow the ideals of
| the American republic. according to
! what German. government officials
| told me-
American Claims Useless.
| With respect to his claims. the Ger
man government informed Senator
Lewis that both Belgium and France
had protested against fGermany's
dealing with American GAINS sep
arately from the French or Belgian
| claims because -Americk ans doing
business in those countries had TO
! take the status of residents there and
| consequently could not beftreated on
a different basis from that of native
residents"
| THE German government says that
80 long as the present demands of
| the European allies for indemnitics
| continue under the treaty of Ver-
| sailles, nothing will remain with
1 which to satisfy American claims.
said Mr.. Lewis.