Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
VIEWS FAR APART.
Herriot- Macdonald Summer Farley
Details Revealed.

BY Cable to The Star and New York World.
LONDON, December 27.-The pub
lication in a Paris newspaper Of part
of the official record of the con-
versations between Premiers Mac
Donald and Herriot last June at
Chequers is considered here as in
Producing important new elements
into the Franco British debt and
security issues, which remain where
they were when Macdonald and
Herriot discussed them six months
ago
While there is nothing in the pub
lished memorandum which Is not al
ready known in informed quarters,
the fact that Herriot and Peretti
French foreign office, made definite
statements regarding the debt, and
specific security proposals is now a
matter of record, and will be de-
bated in the British and French
Parliaments, and the present min
isters in both countries will be
pressed to explain their attitude to
their legislatures.
Churchill Opposed.
Winston Churchill, chancellor of
the exchequer, does not accept the
French viewpoint as expressed at
Chequers, and will make this clear
.
Especial exception will be taken
by the present British treasury
heads to Della Roccas analysis of
the situation, based as 1t Is, on Cur
zon's declaration that the British
government limits it's total claim
against its former allies and Ger
many to the amount needed to pay
the British debt to the United States,
amounting in all to 14,200, ,00o, 900
German gold marks.
Della Rocca declared in June that IL
Germanys debts under the Dawes re-
port be taken as $4,000, ,00O, 900 German
gold marks, Britain would get II ,oOO,-
100000 of them, which would be the %
per cent OF the total upon which the
allies agreed at the Spa conference.
This, Della Rocca said, leaves only
3,200,0o0,000 gold marks to be paid to
the British by the allies under the
Curzon claim, of which France might be
asked to pay half, or about $500, 900, 900.
Ask Five-Year Delay.
Such an amount, Della Rocca said
France cannot contemplate paying either
by annuities or otherwise until one COM
plete annuity has been received from
Germany, which will be in five years
This attitude, which Premier Mac
Donald then declined to discuss, is re-
garded by the present British govern
ment as rldlculouSly inadequate, 1t was
learned on high authority today.
Curzon defined the British position in
a recent speech in the House of Com
mons, as still based on Balfours pro-
posal. later outlined by Curzon, that
Britain take only from Germany and
it's former allies what is needed to pay
the United States, but he added that
Great Britain is unwilling to assume
the German debt is good, thus limiting
that France and Italy must be prepared
to pay a great part Of their debts,
amounting to many times what the
French statesman told Macdonald they
could not pay for five years.
Churchill will make this position
cIear-startlingl clear, 1t Is said
when he goes to Paris, prepared to
make great stroke to win the sup
port and gratitude of the British tax
payers, even IL he gets no cash for it,
MacDonald's attitude in refusing
the French proposal foS a security
pact, his explanation, "Al1 my naval
army and air service experts and also
the foreign Office are against It," his
declaration also that the British do
minions might not agree, are well
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