The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-06-12
DAWES PLAN
is ACCEPTED
Opposition Forces Are Defeated
After Strong Speech by For
eign Minister Stresemann.
HE LAUDs AMERICANS WORK
Styles the Dawes Report "the Eco
nomic Bible of the Present Era
Sharp Talk to opponents-With-
out Required Two-Thirds Vote.

Berlin.-The Marx Government re-
ceived a vote of confidence in the
Reichstag after Foreign Minister
Stresemann had delivered a most vig-
orous defense of the Governments &C.
ceptance of the Dawes report. The
vote stood 247 for and 1873 against,
making majority of ga, which is
more than the Governments oppo-
nents expected it to get.
Previous to the vote motion, in
t. oduced by the extremists of the
Right for vote of lack of confidence
in the Government, was turned down.
The Reichstag was then adjourned I'M
til June "a.
From the start to the finish of his
speech DR.. Gtresemann emphasized
the need for Germany to win the
friendship of America and put foreign
affairs ahead of home problems. He
was most conciliatory with regard to
the Dawes report. Nevertheless, he
vigorously emphasized the Govern
ment's determination to combat the
charge that Germany was responsible
- the World War, and declared that
the Marx Government would complete
soon the publication of German docu~
ents bearing on the events that pre-
cipitated war and insist upon the sim
liar publication by the Entente coun-
tries of the documents in their
archives.
Referring to the tremendous impor-
lance of the entry of the United States
into European affairs, as evidenced in
the fact that the Dawes report was
drawn up by American experts, DR..
Stresemann said:
Think back to December, 1922, and
the speech made by Secretary Hughes.
Quite rightly Cuno, who was then the
German Chancellor, Immediately ex-
pressed Germanys adherence to the
stniments expressed therein, and who
was it who opposed them? 1t was
Poincare. From Paris came at once
the statement: We have no intention
of allowing the international bankers
to rob US of the fruits of our victory
"In the deliberations of the experts
who drafted the Dawes report lay ire
mendous significance. The fact that
the United States declared soon after
the war that it would never mix in
European affairs has spelled ruin to
Germany in the years since.
Again, in the long run, the post of
honest broker in European matters is
certain to fall to the United States.
America is too wealthy to feel any in
terest in weakening Germany. 1t is
far enough away from Europe to see
things correctly"
Herr Stresemann again expressed
his firm belief that the experts who
drafted the report, did SO with abso-
lutely unprejudiced aims. This state
ment brought skeptical cries from the
Right of he Reichstag, especially
from Herr Won Graefe, the 'Voel-
kisch' leader. But as Stresemann
turning partly toward him, continued
unperturbed
Herr Won Graefe does not know
how little the question Of nationality
had to do with the decisions embod-
led in the Dawes report. Nor does he
know that even the Frenchmen voted
at times for decreasing the burdens
to be imposed en- Germany.
1.-THE experts were not influenced by
political considerations, but recog
nized that the problems must be
solved from an economic standpoint.
Here there were more outcries and
DR.. Stresemann again turned, address
ing members at the right of the Reich
stag chamber: "You gentlemen, ap-
parently have not even read the
Dawes reports, produced under the
dominating influence of American ex-
perts, "the economic bible of the pres
ent era" France had right to rep
arations, he added, and it was Ger
many's duty to pay them.
There were renewed cries of pro-
test from the Right and Stresemann
remarked:
1--WE Germans can never get around
the fact that we lost the war"