Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
HOPE FOR PROMPT
DEBT RATIFICATION
Some Opposition to Young
Plan Is Seen Before Pact '
Is Approved.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 8.-The experts on
reparations, leaving for their homes
today after four months of weary work,
hoped the Young plan, result of their
labors, would be accepted by the in
terested governments about as 1t stands.
Any but minor amendments, it was
felt, would wreck the entire scheme
outlined in it, whereby Germany will
pay over SO years a debt having a
capital value of approximately $s,80o.-
100000, and an eventual value of about
see, 1854, 600, 900.
General belief was it would be rati-
fied, although not without some op-
position, by each of the creditor ma
ton governments and by Germany. on
the principle that while it was not all
that could be desired, it was the best
obtainable under the circumstances.
Moreau's Epigram.
Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank
of France, and head of the French
delegation, epitomized sentiment among
the experts in his epigram: "The report
is not entirely satisfactory to anybody
but it is highly satisfactory to every
body"
Diplomatic circles foresaw another
conference soon of diplomats and finan-
ciers to arrange application of the plan
The same conference, it was believed
might take steps for committee to
control the Rhine zone when finally il
is demilitarized and pave the way fol-
evacuation by allied troops. Unless
some hitch develops this evacuation
might materialize as early as middle
Autumn.
Such a committee also would broaden
the scheme for the proposed interna-
tional bank and complete its constitu-
ton, which the experts left merely In
outline. Nothing can be done, however
until Endorsement of the governments to
the Young report as whole Is obtained
Rated SkilIfuI Solution.
Petit Parisien, the most widely read
newspaper, while admitting the report
of the experts was not perfect, said
1T is not eXaggeration to say that be-
ing given the diverse factors with which
the experts had TO count a better ano
more skillful solution could hardly have
been found"
"Pertinax" in Echo de Paris, found
that "the principal defect in the Young
plan is that it presupposes Germany
loyalty resigned to pay of conquerors
and creditors during nearly so years"
The radical organ, Oeuvre, observed
"'The Young plan can be a definite
settlement of the international financla
problems the war left behind 1t, bu
| only on condition that each party con
! siders it as such in good faith and thai
the connection it establishes between
debts and reparations be recognized by
| all as in fact indissoluble."
Americans Leave Paris.
! The American delegates to the con
| ference left today aboard the boat trair
for Cherbourg to catch the Aquitania
M. Moreau. governor of the Bank O
France, and DrS. Hjalmar Schacht ant
Ludwig Kastl of the German delegation
saw them off at the station.
Included in the party were owen d
Young, chairman of the conference
Thomas w. Lamont, Thomas NelsoI
Perkins and David Sarnoff. j. p
Morgan, the other leading member o
the unofficial party, had already lef
France, arriving In New York yester
| day aboard the Mauretania.
Mr.. Young's only comment was: NOV
for long rest on the ocean and regula
meal hours"
DR.. Kastl, who replaced DR.. Alber
Voegler on the German delegation
promised Mr.. Young he would visi
America next year.
The japanese delegate, Kenji Nor
and his party also left. The American
occupied salon car lunching privately