Evening star., 1923-10-28
STILL WITHOUT WORD HERE.
No Additional Advices From Paris
or London Received.

The Washington government re-
mained uniformed yesterday as to
the exact formula that Is being
worked out in Europe for an economic
survey of Germany's capacity to pay
reparations No additional advices,
formal or informal, came from Lon
don or Paris as to the progress of
the negotiations for the creation of
a commission Of experts under the
reparations commission to study Ger
many's economic situation.
Unofficial reports that the French
position included a demand that the
question Of Frances war debts to
Great Britain and the United States
must be included in the subjects to
be discussed by the experts were dis
counted The State Department thus
far has received only an informal
outline of the French reply to the
British proposals.
The only French stipulation, SO far
as known here. was that which would
place the expert advisors under the
authority Of the reparations commits
sion. France, it has been pointed
out, hardly could attach a stipulation
bringing in the debt question, and
still expect American participation In
what was proposed in view of the
repeated official statements by Sec
retary Hughes that the Washington
government could not embark on any
discussion Of those debts.
Desire to BE Fair Stressed.
At the same time, stress was laid
by Mr.. Hughes, in his reply to Lord
Curzon. on the desire Of the American
government to deal in all fairness
with the allied powers in arranging
the United States. In that connection
he said:
TT may be added that the estab-
lishment of sound economic condi-
tions in Europe, the serious reduction
Of military outlays and the demon
people to work together to achieve
the aims Of peace and Justice will
not fail to have their proper influence
upon American thought and purpose
in connection with such adjustments /"
Since the stated purpose Of Great
ing the expert commission as given
in the published international corre-
spondence Is to recommend q finan-
, cial plan for settlement of the repa-
rationS problem on its merits, it has
been generally assumed that a repre-
sentative American financier would
be included In whatever group of
Americans may be named to the ad-
visory commission. If admin! stra-
tion officials are already considering z
the nar1es OF American f1nanciers in
that connection, however, they have
been careful not to disclose the fact
It was again strongly emphasized,
however, that, whoever might be
named and whatever the method of
their actual appointment, they would
represent the judgment Of the Wash
ington administration as the Amer
leans best fitted to undertake such
responsibilities.
Makeup Of Delexatiens.
In some quarters It il expected
that each nation concerned will be
represented by several men, each of
international reputation in some par
ticular division of the economic field.
In that event 1t Is regarded as prob
able that an American industrialist,
q man with practical working knowl-
edge Of such an industry as the
steel, would be selected. Since the
Ruhr depends almost wholly upon
the German steel industry, thought
has turned to the big figures among
American steel men as possible Amer
lean members Of the commission. al
though, again, there Is nothing to
indfcata that the adm istratfon has