Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-03
IS NATIONS MEET
TO TALK DEBT PLAN
Conference Expected to Put
Preparations Scheme Into
Final Form.
BY the Associated Press.

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THE HAGUE, January 3.-Final
trimming, expansion and revision Of
the Young plan was the object today
of representatives of Is nations meet
ing here for the second conference on
separations. When they have concluded
their labors-unless some unforeseen
hitch develops-the Young plan will
be referred back to the governments for
ratification and its schedule of an.
nuities over So years will actually re-
place the present Dawes plan annuitles
scale.
A meeting Of from 10 days to 2
weeks was hoped for, but there were
those not so sure that pending matters
could be disposed of in that Tins
Arstide BRAND. French foreign min
lster, hopes to leave here in time for
the meeting Of the council of the
League OF Nations January IS, while
several OF the delegates here will attend
the London Naval Conference opening
January 81.
The problem which possibly will
nrlng most discussion and draw ma
tional lines clearest, it was expected
here today, will be that represented
by Germany's demand that the idea
OF sanctions be eliminated from the
creditor nations PREPARATIONS policy.
Rhineland Occupation Fought.
Although parliamentary ratification
has not been given, the German govern
ment has pledged its good faith in
acceptance of the Young plan, and its
intention to abide by its provisions.
But, IN the event some circumstances
should bring cessation of payment, the
Reich does not wish to have the Rhine
land reoccupied. or other penalties i'm
posed to exact further cash.
The Reich hopes that some sort OF
arbitration board can be provided which
will determine responsibility in the
event Of defaulted payments, and then
employ sanctions If they are founQ
necessary. This idea, somewhat modl-
ned, also Is held by M. BRAND.
French Want Guarantee.
Others in the French government are
known to be less inclined to abandon
what they consider a guarantee that the
German annuities will be made, and
ergo, that France meets it's war debt
and other obligations from the money
thus obtained. Broadly speaking, the
tendency among the remaining creditor
nations seems to favor this French
position.
M. Tardieu, French premier, is ex.
pected today to see Philip Snowden,
British chancellor of the exchequer,
whose firm stand for return to Great
Britain of certain former concessions on
separations greatly prolonged the first
Hague conference. The concessions
finally made to the British government
affected France most, and it was be-
lieved, since there was considerable
French popular dissatisfaction with the
arrangement, that there might be some
further discussion of the matter.
Problems involved in the So-called
Oriental reparations," or those to be
exacted from Hungary and Bulgaria,
also faced the meeting as it convened.
It was possible these might be evaded
for the time being and referred to some
later conference. Phases of the scheme
Tor the new Bank of International Set
Elements were certain to reach the con-
ference.
The meeting is the fourth of the more
recent reparations conferences, the first
being that Of the financial experts at
Paris last year, in which the German
reparations debt was spread over 50
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