New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-17
We Will Take
What w eNeed.
Says Poi1lcare
Premier Hints Isolation ON
Preparations Is Likely To
Be Policy if Moratorium,
Is Granted by the Powers
Cabinet Discusses Step
Belgian Change of Heart
Now Reported May Iurn
Tide i'm frances Favor

Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune, Inc.
PARIS, Aug, 16.--After u meeting Of
the Cabinet to-day at which were dis
cussed eventualities growing out Of
Great Britain's refusal to stand with
france in her proposal to seize German
property to insure reparation payments,
Premier Poincare made substantially
the following statement to press corre-
spondents:
The entire question now hangs with
the Reparation Commission. The gov
ernment will take holiday for three
or four days. am not sure that the
commission will decide against France
nave some information that some
governments, especially those most OBJ
stinate in the conference, are chang
ing their minds. But if the decision Is
against us, we cannot sacrifice our i'm
terests.
IL is within the power of the corn
mission to grant a moratorium TO Ger.
many, but it must at the same time
declare Germany in default against the
terms of the treaty. Her default can
not be contested. The matter Of de-
livery of coal and wood and the pay
ment OF pre-war commercial debts will
still be there.
I'VE are not children. We are now
In the Rhineland, and If necessary we
Will take what we need. But all this
- hypothetical at the moment. I be-
lieve and hope that the commission
Will reach just and reasonable de-
cision."
Confers With Dubois
Premier Poincare tonight held a
conference with M. Dubois, the French
member of the commission; and later
with a British representative. 1t is not
Known. however, whether the British
viewpoint has changed or whether the
premier's reference was to Belgium.
The Cabinet session this morning
was at the summer home of President
Millerand. The matter of taking iso-
lated acton against Germany, f the
decision of the reparation commission
goes, against France, was discussed, but
no decision taken. Whether a policy
of force will be put into effect now de-
Ponds upon the action of the commits
sion, which takes up the matter to-
morrow. Its attitude on a German
moratorium probably will be made
known in a few days.
Indications were not lacking to-day
that since the London conference Bel
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heart and that probably the Brussels
Cabinet would instruct It's delegate to
the reparation commission to vote with
France against the German moratorium
proposal. An unofficial dispatch from
Brussels tends to confirm this belief.
Deadlock Apparent.
The British and Italian cabinets have
instructed their respective delegates
on the Reparation Commission to vote
in the Affirmative on the moratorium.
If Belgium adheres to the French view
point the deadlock thus created, ac-
cording to expert opinion, would have
to be untangled by the president OF
the body. AS this is M. Dubois II
would seem that Germany would not
be accommodated.
LONDON, Aug, 1e (By The Asso-
ciated Press). Possible disintegration
of the Reparations Commission is
foreshadowed in Paris dispatch to
"The Times" which alludes to rumors
that the British member of the COM
mission, Sir John Bradbury, is about
to resign.