Evening star., 1922-12-16
FRENCH WELCOME
ANY j. s. PROPOSAL
ON PREPARATIONS
Would Examine Carefully
and Appreciate Plan to
Aid in Crisis.
RUMOR OF WORLD LOAN
EARLY, LONDON'S VIEW
Possibility of Aid Greeted With
Enthusiasm in Berlin-Many
Skeptical.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 16.-The French
government would examine carefully
and appreciatively any proposals
made by the American government
which might prove helpful in obtain
ing reparations from Germany. 1t
was said today. in connection with
reports from Washington that such
proposals were being considered.
While the dispatches received here
dealing with the supposed purposes
of the Washington government lack
ed any sort of definiteness, the i'm
preston gathered in French official
and interallied reparations circles
from their first examination of the
reports was that the ideas of the
international bankers committee
which met last June were being
closely followed.
Delacroix Working Steadily.
Former Premier Delacroix of Bel
gium. now head of the National Bank
of Belgium. and Belgian member of
the reparations commission, who is
chairman of the bankers committee,
has been working steadily since the
adjournment of the committee last
summer with the bankers of the
various countries and with represent
ativeS of interested governments.
The purpose has been to have the
committee reconvened to work In CO.
operation with the allied and neutral
governments and SO fix the total sum
of German reparations as to enable
Germany to pay by means of an in
ternational loan issued in INSTALL
mentS.
Has Had Support.
NJ. Delacroix has had the active
support of British and Belgian finan-
cial and governmental opinion. and
he has carried with him such influ-
ence as was derived from the support
of DR.. Vissering. head of the Dutch
state tank. and to some extent, it Is
understood. of prominent New York
financiers. The general idea Of these
powerful European financial groups
working in cooperation with their
several governments is that no set
tlement can be obtained until the sum
of German reparations has been final
ly fixed at q total of somewhere be-
tween forty and sixty billion gold
marks.
Total Of Slight Importance.
In speaking of these great sums
slight Importance apparently Is at
tached to whether the total Is five
billion or ten billion more or less.
The favorite figure is $4,000. 100000.
The second fundamental considera-
tion in the view of these groups 10
that such political arrangements shall
be made as shall guarantee there will
be no impairments of German assets
or of German facilities for payment
during a long term OF years. This
involves political decisions Of the
highest Importance for the govern
ments concerned.
French Omcinls Informed.
French official minds. from Premier
Poincare downward. have been thor
oughly informed as to the scope and
details of these plans. The premier
and his associates in the French gov
ernment rejected them last June and
have been constant critics since OF
the fresh formulas proposed. Yet
there have been indications unofi-
cially of certain regrets in French
governmental quarters that the whole
question could not have been settled
last summer under the bankers sug-
gestions before German credit was SO
enormously damaged by the fall of the
mark.