Evening star., 1931-06-24
FRENCH OPPOSE
HOOVER PROPOSAL
Unofficial Report Says Paris,
However, Admits Need
to Aid Germany.
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bank for financing Germany and other
European nations such as Austria.
It is understood here that Wash
ington feels that the Hoover plan should
be accepted in its entirety and that
the tachnicalities of the Young plan
should not be allowed to affect 1t.
Flat Refusal Impossible.
lie Temps, often officially inspired
said tonight that Trance could moi
1latly turn down the Hoover suggestion
but it was inconceivable that the ma
ton would give up the principle OF un.
conditional reparationS payments LAID
down in the Young plan.
IF the United States made hel
proposition on the basis Of the main
tenance of debts owed, France has 9
right to accompany her acceptance OF
the American offer with a demand io1
the integrity of the Young plan, the
newspaper said.
The White House, the newspaper con-
tinued, is too we'll informed about politi-
cal procedure to attempt to impose one
definite formula, which it Is necessary
that other countries accept as offered
without close examination or discussion
of the methods by which 1t would be
put into effect.
Cabinet Completes Reply.
The cabinet completed the text OF its
reply to the Hoover moratorium pro-
poSal this afternoon.
At the conclusion of the lengthy cab
met session Premier Laval personally
gave out the following communicate:
1.-The cabinet has definitely drawn up
the text of the reply which France Is
making concerning the proposition OF
President Hoover, and Premier Laval
will deliver this text this afternoon 70
the American Ambassador in Paris.
The premier refused to make any
comment concerning the nature OF the
French answer. He would not say
whether France insisted upon a
colnter-plan concerning the payment
of unconditional annuities by Germany.
The attitude of the premier was that
nothing should leak out in Paris pc
fore the reply reaches washington
through the American embassy here.
The only statement the premier would
volunteer was that he expected TO hano
the document to Ambassador Edge az
the ministry of interior this afternoon
Asked when the text would be avail
able in France he answered: I VIII
give it out in the chamber Friday when
debate on the American proposal Is
scheduled.
Hope U. S. viii Agree.
Should the French cabinet decision
be to approve the counter plan, hope
was voiced here that the United States
would accord the move its earnest con-
sideration because France Is convinced
it would attain the object which Mr..
Hoover is seeking in his proposal.
It Is submitted that France, called
upon to make big sacrifice In either
event, should be permitted TO offer a
suggestion as to how the problem can
be met. Behind her policy, it was
said, is the fear that once shaken the
Young plan will finally fall completely.
The Conservative le Journal says:
Hoover may ignore the Young plan,
but the powers who signed it cannot.
There is big difference between the
American plan and Frances counter
system. The Hoover plan involves sus-
suspension means that the payments
will never be resumed. The French plan
maintains the principle Of the pay
ments and thus the future is safe
guarded"
On the other hand. LIE Matin says
the French government VIII accept
positive collaboration under the Hoover
plan without abandoning French in
terests.
1--WE understand that the French
answer will be based upon the principle
of acceptance" 1t was said, with q
reservation concerning the uncondi-
tional annuities."
Forecasts Rejection.
The business newspaper La Journee
said that the Chamber of Deputies from
left to right will reject the Hoover pro-
posal II 1t maintains no distinction be-
tween reparations and war debts, odd
ing that the government is ready to
accept it as a basis of negotiations.
This will follow logically, the paper
said, unless Hoover made simply an
ostentatious move intended perhaps to
halt for an instant the exodus of capi-
tai from Germany. One cannot believe
that he imagined for a moment that he
was offering serious durable remedy
for the world crisis"
Edge Explains Action.
French officials took into consideration
information furnished by Ambassador
Edge as to the circumstances surround
ing the formulation of the offer for q
one-year suspension of intergovernment
war debts. Mr.. Edge called on Premier
Labal last night and told him that
France was the first nation to be in
formed of the proposal.
President Hoover was obliged to take
speedy action when acquainted with the
financial crisis existing in Germany, he
said, and France was miSinformed II
she believed that he had previously ne
gotiated with other governments to her
exclusion.
The Ambassadors visit was actuated
by a speech before the Chamber of
Deputies, in which Deputy Louis Marin
said that the Hoover proposal would
scrap the Young plan, and limited that
France had been ignored in preliminary
steps.
The Hoover proposal continued to re-
ceive acrid comment in extreme Right
organs. Pertinax said in Echo de Paris
that the United States had treated
France most cavalierly" on the f1f-
teenth of June by calmly collecting half
of the regular annuity, sum which was
said to be much greater than the
amount received from Germany since
April /.
Two days later America no less calm
" invited France to suspend German
reparatiens, he said which was an un-
fortunate coincidence.
BRITAIN TO COOPERATE
SnOwden Tells Commons Government