Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-08-21
HERR|0T
ON PREPARATIONS
Puts Dawes Plan Before the
Chamber of Deputies
is Given Ovation

PARIS, Aug. 81 (By The Associat-
! ed Press) Premier Herriot put the
Dawes reparation plan and the Lon
don agreement for making 1t effee.
| tive before the Chamber of Deputies
this afternoon and told the men,
bers: II, for my part have chosen,
but nothing final has been done and
parliament, In its turn, can choose"
M. Herriot emphasized that arbi-
tration was the great principle es-
tablished at the London conference
and asserted that France would gain
by 1t for at would need a great deal
of optimism to believe that France,
in the future, could again get the
majority of votes which enabled her
to enter the Ruhr."
The reparation problem in which
France was the most interested
party had not been taken from the
political into the economic field, the
premier continued, and 1--WE have
given very large role to American
citizens in our organization, which
was done designedly. for we can only
rejoice to have associated with us
the great American Republic which
has witnessed our sufferings and
which has all the authority neces-
sary to supervise the execution OF
| the program which was due in a
large part to its initiative"
Evacuation of the Ruhr, the pre-
mier said had dominated everything
at the international conference in
London and he had had ito choose
between the establishment of an
interallied entente and the cintinu-
ance of isolated action"
Frances freedom of action, M
Herriot said, had been defended to
the utmost in London but the situa-
tion had become grave. Then Prime
Minister Macdonald of Great Britain
in two letters had reminded the
French and Belgians of the declara-
tion they had made when they en-
tered the Ruhr that they had done
so merely to enforce payment by
| the Germans.
And the German delegates at Lon
don, through the British prime min
| .ster, had made 1t plain that the
| Reichstag would not accept the pro.
posed plan unless the Ruhr were
EVACUATED. Nevertheless. M. Her.
| riot went on, he had come before the
cabinet in Paris decided to limit
to a maximum of one year. the mill
| tary occupation of the Ruhr."
ITO go beyond that was to risk
again a rupture OF the conference"
| the premier added, and he became
convinced that II France remained
| in the Ruhr except for a definite
stay. she would stay there absolutely
! alone.
Arbitration, he continued. had
Improved most markedly the meth
| cd of transfers such as was defined
| In the Dawes plan and has trans
, ferred the regime of payment In
: kind which has caused so many
difficulties in the past"
BERLIN, Aug. II (By The Asso-
ciated Press) The German govern
ment has begun the legislative pro-
gram required to carry out the
agreement reached at the London
conference for launching the Dawes
reparation plan
A bill presented to the iReichstag
| provides firstly, assent to the London
| protocol. secondly authorization for
the minister of finance to float loan
of S00,000,000 gold marks, and
thirdly authorization for the govern
ment of the Reich to take measures
with a view to the surrender of state
railway bonds to the value of H.
900, 900, 900 gold marks and bonds to
the value of 5000. 100000 gold marks
under the law relating to taxation
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