Evening star., 1923-03-30
SAYS q. 8. WILL ACT.
Louis Loucheur Reiterates His
View on Debt to America.
PAUL SCOTT MOwRER,

BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER.
by Cable to The Star ana Chicago Daily Newe.
Copyright, 1923.
PAR1S, March 30.-Louis Loucheur.
former cabinet minister. leader of one
OF frances strongest financial groups
and considered one OF Frances ablest
statesmen with brilliant political
career ahead OF him, believes that
the United States can and should in
due course intervene in the repara-
tions problem. This problem in its
three connected phases of German
operations, inter allied debts and
trench security, is probably the most
serious issue of international rela-
solution perhaps hangs the future
peace of the world.
Reiterates Debt Views.
When asked what the United States
might helpfully do in these circum-
stances, NJ. Loucheur declared to the
correspondent:
MY views regarding the French
debt to the United States are already
known. I have stated them several
times. If the United States is unable
to consider a full remission of these
ocDloT even IN connection Win the
general settlement Of reparations. a
reasonable solution might be. as sew
eral American fnanciers, notably La
mont and Baruch, have proposed. that
tablished between debts Contracted
by France before the United States
entered the war and those contracted
afterward.
Final Settlement Vital
But what chiefly matters is final
settlement OF Franco German relations.
without which peace can hardly reign
in the world. AS regards the past the
reparat!ons question must be settled On
this point the United States can very
well intervene. because on the one hand
| the United States holds almost all Of the
worlds gold and on the other Germany
ture labor. This future labor should be
made the object Of a discount operation
by means Of the worlds gold supply to
enable France and its allies to solve
the reparations problem.
Question Of Security.
"Franco-German relations depend
also on the question OF security
| France does not want to undergo any
| more attacks like that Of 1914. wha,
should be done? Let US talk no more
OF a pact. because the United States
does not want 1t. But what can be
| substituted? Here is what I SHOULD
| favor:
/ There should be, from a military
point OF view. kind Of neutral zone
! between France and Germany. The
hrst necessity would be to make Of
| the Rhineland a state like Wurtem
berg, Bavaria and Saxony. But, con.
| traIy to what has been said. there
! would be no attempt to separate thi!
| state from Germany. The latter
would remain a federal country a,
1t is now. and would. OF course. in.
| clude the Rhineland.
Overflow OF Prussia.
"At present these Rhenish province,
are the overflow OF Prussia upon the
west bank Of the Rhine, and the Prus-
sian official, schoolmaster or engineer
who rules in the Rhineland brings
with him the spirit OF militarism. We
absolutely do not want any more OF
| this. However, mere naturalization
| would be insufficient. No military
operation must remain possible in thit
be necessary to put the railways un.
| der International control-under the
league of nations. for example. Also
| as Lord Robert Cecil has Indicated
| the peace Of the world should be in.
| sured by an international gendar.
merle which would keep watch on the
Rhine"