Evening star., 1922-09-03
The Story the Week Has Told

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Germany-Another. reparations crisis is
ended-rather tamely. On Thursday the
reparations commission announced it's deci-
sion on the matter which for weeks had
made sleep a stranger to the statesmen Of
Paris London. Brussels and Berlin; and the
French government has virtually accepted II.
1t is this way: Under the well known prior
this year. belgium proposed to the commits
monthly installments (Germany paid up to in
clude July) German government six-months
approved the proposal and Incorporated it in
the decision. Guarantees of payment are to
the 'Ts Belgian e'a and ID German Eovernments "a
hitch here is conceivable but unltkelyo AS
at the London conference, where it was re-
jected The fact that Poincare accepts 1t now
intransigence- bellies him.
The is of Of sots
frances face. it is precisely not called
chats the hunor of It," The reparations com.
of the German government" for a moratorium
beyond December 81. 1922. until the commits
sion has completed its sCneme TOT tAe radical
reform of German public finances. Including:
"la) Balancing OF the BUDGET
IN ha at
their prior consent thereto. reduction OF Ger
manys foreign obligations in so far as may
be considered necessary for the restoration
of her credit;
"tc) Currency reform.
"(dl The issue OF foreign and internal loans
in order to consolidate the financial situation"
The reader is doubtless aware that frances
consent to reduction of Germanys foreign
obligations presupposes an adjustment of In
teraIlied war debts satisfactory to France.
and that floating OF foreign loans presup-
poses reduction Of Germanys foreign obliga-
tions. The road to a satisfactory settlement
the way. Obviously the present arrangement
is the merest stop gap;
has virtually accepted the commissions de-
cision. and that the arrangement sanctioned
until the end of 1922 hold to these state
ments. though the French government, in
communiaue, notes that the reparations COM
mission have not accorded a moratorium
without expressing approval or disapproval Of
Mnaa liberty " Of action" The French communlaue
impresses almost purely a face-saving
ene Crisis as R the
decision and the virtual acceptance thereof by
the French government provide considerable
period for deliberation and new attempts
toward genuine settlement. Already the
French government has instituted such an
attempt. Replying to Lord Balfours famous
note of August 2. 1t has proposed that "the
problem of inerallied debts be examined be-
which should be invited all the interested allied
countries without exception" There is no
doubt that, should the proposed conference
be held. certain associated power would re-
ceive most pressing invitation to participate.
On Friday. at Eberswalde industrial town
a little north Of Berlin said to be hotbed of
communism. there was a food riot. provoked
ostensibly by the high cost of living mob
looted a grain mill, a freight station and
sundry food stores They treated roughly
detachment of security police, who therefore
fired upon them. killing and woundng
twenty. Some look this affair
symptomatic and ominous
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Austria-I spoke last week Of the visit of
the Austrian chancellor to Italy to meet the
Italian foreign minister. Nothing came of