The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-07-18
THINKS GERMANY WANTS WAR
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for As cents, also a bottle of any sort
OF light wine for 40 cents additional
In typical French cafes dinner for five
people with q quart of champagne ana
llqueurs Is obtaInable for S9.2j includ
ing the 10 per cent fee when is neces-
Sary. II, however, you want to see the
"llte you can 90 as lar as you like and
pay accordingly. Ia&is by meter are
cheaper than amy IN America and they Ii
carry as many people as You can pile IN
without extra charge.
Apparently union labor is not q nui-
sance, for every man seems willing ant
ANXIOUS to WORK. Regulations and rules
appear to be applied at the discretion OF
the workman who keeps no hmiteo
hours but works all day Sunday ant
stays on the job until p. M. doing
ordinary labor. l haven't met a beggal
nor seen one. l haven't seen an idle
man nor one who appeared to be poor.
/ haven't seen drunken man nor any
one under the influence of liquor. In
no respect does Paris appear any dit
ferent than IN pre-war days.
Nhen the subject of repayments OF
foreign loans is mentioned you notice
an invariable attitude OF resignation
and you receive an expression which III
effect. Is, Yes, we Will need time
then we will pay" But you promptly
despise yourself for being conscious that
you intend to take every cent they can
tends to avoid paying any of her repair
alton as soon as she can bring about
such default. France TO date has ad
yanced for purposes OF reconstruction
the huge sum oil SS,5OO,000 and yet an
equally great sum viii be needed to
bring the work TO completion. She
found every penny OF it herself and
is still floating loans among her thrifty
people at per cent rate of interest
to provide national funds for current
needs. The Frenclman reasons-tlert
is 10 definite guarantee that EnglanG
and the United States will abandon
their claims on FraDee while the former
spread propaganda endorsing Il proposed
reduction of Germany's liability, not al
the expense of England which suffered
no devastation. nor at the expense OF
the United States which suffered II,
damage but has added an enormous sum
to its resources. but at the expense OF
France which has suffered most from
the war.
France win consent to a reduction
of the German liability in proportion t.
the amount of French debts to the al
lies which the latter definitely guaran
tee to cancel As the matter now stands
France must mortgage her expected
payments from Germany in order t.
pay America and England and every
attempt of the allies to reduce Ger
many'S liability automatically destroys
| Frances means OF repaYlng her debt
until such time as she has restored hel
ten devastated departments" Their,
isn't a Frenchman that does not believe
Germany intends to seek revenge and
start another war to recover her lost
territory Just as soon as she can per
feet a plan to do so. They know that
Germany financed four years of thu
GREAT war without a cents worth OF
helm from abroad and they feel shs
could begin another without any money
except what she would force her owr
people to accept That's why Frame,
will maintain an army sufficient to pro
tect herself and that policy can never
be altered because some one or more
unmenaced foreign nation does not hap
nen to concur in the French opinion.
(Signedl c. F. c.