Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-10

NOTWITHSTANDING STRENUOUS QlSSent
from Berlin spokesman to some Of its
statements about Germany's ability to
meet her financial obligations, the
optimistic report Of S. Parker Gilbert,
agent general of reparations, has been
received with expressions of satisfac-
ton by the American press.
Referring to the visit of Mr.. Gilbert
to this country as significant, the
Springfield Republican expresses the
view that "he has been using his great
personal influence, due to his special
knowledge and to the successful opera
ton of the Dawes plan, to convince the
statesmen of Europe and the financiers
of two continents that the time was
ripe for q final settlement" The Re-
publican suggests as TO the future:
while Mr.. Gilbert's report will be read
with all the more interest because OF his
advocacy of winding up the Dawes plan.
1t, of course, cannot be read in quite
the same way as his earlier reports,
made before he had . thesis to support.
l. On its face the report seems
fair enough, and he certainly makes .
good showing for the prompt and BUSH
nesslike way in which Germany has
met its obligations to date"
"He acclaimS Germany's economic
soundness and pays tribute to the fine
spirit in which that country has laid
the products Of her science, skill and
labor at the disposal Of the creditor
nations in an effort to pay for the
war;" says the Spokane Spokesman
Review, with the further comment:
Germany dropped monarchical insti--
tutions with the ending Of the war and
hnYJrfqhnd rAnffhltR--I1lTtneT
proof of the soundness and superiority
of democratic government. A
demonstration Of good faith from one
nation to other nations, and that nation
defeated in war, is the worlds best hope
of enduring peace"
The thought that ut Is promising to
note that the New Year anthem OF
prosperity Is not to be exclusively an
American composition" comes to the
Philadelphia Record, which observes
that Into its tuneful strains now creeps
an agreeable echo from the European
section of the world choir" and that
"the melodies which blend so har-
moniously with the chorus on this side
of the water are pleasing variations upon
the theme Of the financial liquidation
of the Great War" Referring to the
economic and financial state of Ger
many the Record calls it surprisingly
promising, as revealed by the annual
report Of Mr.. Gilbert" That paper
believes that with a national debt of
less than $2,000,000 900 the German
people themselves could subscribe to q
| large part Of the proposed loan"
Germany" the Brooklyn Eagle notes,
"is DESTROYS OF prompt relief from the
economic and moral burden imposed
| by armies of occupation maintained on
German soil 10 years after the conclu-
Germans were obliged to pay last year
to feed, clothe and house a foreign
soldiery thrust in the midst of the
peaceful Rhineland truly represents
what President Hindenburg yesterday
called bitter burden"
1.-THE INTERPOLATION of war reparations
and war debts" argues the Chicago
Daily Tribune, in view of German re-
sentiment against the statement on that
country's resources, seemed to give an
assured place to American participation
in this complicated and aggravated in
ternational affair, but this recent Incl
dent proves with what jeopardy the
United States interposes In the relations
of one European nation to another
The incident probably will lose its
severity. But there has been flare-up
of hostile opinion in Germany which
cannot single out one American citizen
for it's object. but which attaches to
American policy and purposes as a
whole"
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The objections to the armies of occu-
patton are discussed also by the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, with the state
ment: 'The nation has fulfilled its
treaty pledges, but every effort looking
to the liberation of the Rhine and the
Saar valleys has failed. This was the
subject of the recent conference at
iLugano. but nothing of definite nature
was decided; at Least. the reports Of