The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-14
US. URGED TO CANCEL WAR DEBTS British Editor Sets Forth Broad View Of Set
 tlement
 ENGLAND TO PAY
 FULL AMOUNT America In Turn Would Be Expected To Free Europe
 POINT OF PRIDE
 TO BE THE APPEAL Strachey Would Avoid Conditions-AIl To Be
 Free-Handed

Editors Note: With allied premlers, American observers ana ;n 1.ondan reparatiOns the foiiOwiST,g .S,sos srus'e os 9 "Ths sIPss1 sPsstStorT Tn. ISnSSn LonSon conference vii make a final effort to rsacn 2 ep pt sss srsuGns %aves report, but strachey de- ciares that reparations are insePSsIHta PnrItsan from inter1ai,l,isSS ;a,,sS stats: SsSts; and Temits Esr eontinentaI debts, he believes ASnerfca will follow her example
 u~ ST. JOE RrRACHEY. SconyrixSt. 1894, For The Ags- -Herald.) Y.ONDON. ' .ly 13.-How can we. the people of the British era- pire. best serve the world?
 By placing clear and definite uolicy before mankind, by showing ourselves willing to make sacrifices ia obtain it, and by askin' other neople to follow our example.
 what Is that policy? It can De aas;lv Ekated-to make settlement 1ust and lasting in respect of:
 i, German reparations.
 2. Security for Fran.
 8. Inter-allied debts.
 Issues ArS Linked
 rheae three things hang together: No One of them can be really settled 1Tcaok in conjuncticn with the others, 1nS s,evv is kAa Naceeptnhle tiEaeS NQt z e,,.svs sAA aesSsaaiit between EAmsay MaeDonald and premier HegE1ot of Trance. but the course of events m CAsTnany. show that there is at last \ resI desire to take action in regard to the Dawes report.
 What is now wanted. is courage and foresight. More courage to make a beginning is not enough. There must be the more rare courage of carrying through to the end, and of facing the consequences.
 In the present predicament what tne ueople of the British empire are ,spe- Sally FeOuired to realize is that all turns on the inter-allied debts. If we Rave enough imagination and enough vreat-haartedness to behold here, and to Zee that self-sacrifice and self-preserva- tion may well go together, all may yet 70 well. We have got to give the world a lead, and we have got to do 1t from in front, not from behind.
 Must Let Them Off
 We nave SOL bO UGH F HoASC oAN SAS other allied powers that in order to ar rive at a European settlement we shall be willing to let them off their debts, provided that the powers who are ex- pecting reparations from Germany will not press their claims in such way as to kill Europe.
 But that is not all. We have got to ask America to follow our example. Happily, we can do so without any accusation of selfishness OF of desire merely to obtain something for our selves.
 One of the strongest reasons l have had for urging so often that our debt to America must be paid in full, and for not asking for any remissions, how ever strong our case might be, was the thought that the time would come when we should be called upon to set an example and ask others to make a sac rifice.
 How could we do this to a people remote from, and not unnaturally sus- picious of, European statecraft, unless we could prove to them that we had no ulteFior motives? t4
 We cannot and will not ask favors from America for ourselves {; but we can ask them for others, including America herself. America has duties as well as rights, and nobly have Ameri.
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