Evening star., 1925-02-09
Mixed Impressions Recorded
OF Coolidge-Daeschner Meeting

Significance, but it is not an effort
| to be disagreeable."
The Post continues: at IS no more
an effort to be disa greeable than was
NJ Herrfots statement that America
ought to ask a little leS-a state
ment obviously made for horae con-
sumption. Both gentlemen-au three
gentlemen, in fact-understand that
the friendship between the two ma
tions is rooted in soil deeper than
any monetary necessity They un-
drestand that the two countries will
continue to be friends. if those in
both countries who make mountains
out OF molehills will permit them to be"
* x x
with understanding brought to
this point, there should be less diff
flculty in coming to an agreement
with respect to the money due"
thinks the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times,
which adds: Our President exhibited
fne diplomatic quality" The New
York World believes Mr.. Coolidge
and NJ. Daeschner are practical men.
Both know that some feasible com
promise must be arrived at with re-
gard to the French debt and that
they are charged with the work. The
fewer exhibitions of vocal fireworks
there are about it, whether in the
French Chamber or the American
Senate, the sooner and the better can
It be accomplished"
For once President Coolidge forgot
his reputation for taciturnity,'' de-
| clares the Hartford Times, but his
reply lacked nothing of characteristic
laconfsm." The Times continues: His
declaration that the debt of gratitude
already had been satisfied and that both
nations might well proceed to~consider-
alton Of their material obligations, may
not have helped materially toward set
tlement of the debt question, but it
may serve to clear the atmosphere"
The French Ambassador, says the Wa
terloo Tribune, takes occasion to tell
the President that the material debts
Of nations must be paid as well as
debts Of gratitude. The President re
minds the Frenchman that the United
States has repaid the debts of graft
tude owed France for it's aid during
the Revolutionary War We are even
then, except as to the material debts"
1.-THE Frenchman's thrust was pre-
cise,'' observes the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger, "but he left his guard down
and the Coolidge parry turned aside
the thrust and the point Of his blade
slipped home to the very heart of the
debt ISSUE In the opinion of the
Butte Post, "the Ambassador didn't
pay dIy InluS-u0 WASH expected To-
and the ceremonial interchange didn't
make a cent of difference in existing
conditions that relate to the French
debt" ~,
While the Oakland Tribune thinks:
''The fact that the retiring Ambas
sador, M. Jusserand, put his foot into
things with a similar statement did
not deter the new one, who evidently
shares the belief of many other French
spokesman that repeated requests and
orations will have an effect upon opin
ion in this country. On the word OF
French officials presumably entitlAd to
speak. we, have it that the. French debt
will and will not be- paid. and that con
lcessfons~ are and d.are -"ffot expected
The Nashville Banner adds. afhe words
of M. Daeschner but classify him def
nitely as another player in the game
the French government has been carEy-
Ing pn fox I've years and more"