Evening star., 1932-01-22
DEBT STAND Of j. s.
HIT BY HERR|OT IN
CHAMBER ADDRESS
Ex-Premier Says America
Should Cooperate Closer
in Aims for Peace.
REJECTION OF SECURITY
GUARANTEE REGRETTED
Laval Says Ministry Will Sur
render None of It's Repara-
tions Rights.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. January 22-Criticism of the
stand of the United States on the repa
rations questions mingled with rever-
berations Of a midnight speech of former
Premier Edouard Herriot in the Cham
Der of Deputies last night and keyed
France for another address today by
Premier Pierre Laval.
The speech of NJ. Herriot was cheered
wildly by the crowded chamber. In
the course of it he declared fatty that,
while France is ready to lend helping
hand to Germany in her difficulties, she
cannot abandon her right to reparations
secured to her by contracts freely en-
tered into.
THE United States" the former pre-
mier and Radical leader said, which
often gives us advice, would gain by be-
ing closer to us in international negoti-
ations aimed at uniting the whole world
to assure peace"
Regret Characterized Talk.
Regret, rather than anger, character
ized the American reference, however,
and the general attitude of the former
nremier was quiet and argumentatiVe
rather than snowy, for all its effect. =,
Premier Laval was applauded by all
parties in the Chamber OF Deputies 10.
dav when he declared. in the course OF
a declaration of policy, that ms govern
ment will surrender none OF the rlgnts
with regard to reparatlons Wnlch IL III
herited IRON its predecessors.
He reviewed events in the develop
roent of the reparations problem since
the declaration of moratorium py
President Hoover. and asserted that un-
der the circumstances it seemed to him
advisable that the international deotS
conference. tentatively arranged Tor
Lausanne. be postponed.
Before he faced the Chamber Tor the
first vote of confidence his present
government has sought, he said ne
filed a protest with the German gov
ernment against Chancellor Bruenlng
assertion that Germany cannot meet
its reparations payments when the
Hoover moratorium expires and Will not
accept another temporary settlement OF
the reparations problem.
Cites Young Plan Report.
He cited the report of the Young
Plan Commission, which recently met
at Basel, to the effect that while Ger
many is in temporary difficulties the
economic power of which she might
take advantage in the future is tre-
mendous.
The premier reiterated that France
will not write off the reparationS due
her and will not accept any reduction
in reparationS payments unless there IS
a corresponding reduction in the war
debts she owes.
1t is unthinkable, he said, to permit
Germany to dictate a settlement OF the
reparationS problem.
He went into the disarmament issue
in some detail, reviewing the French
policy and expressing the hope that
practical results will come out OF the
conference next month at Geneva.
The Chamber adjourned in the carry
morning hours, and met again this att
ernoon. M. Laval appeared confident he
had its support for his foreign policy,
although a vote Of confidence was not
reached He told questioners last night
that his task would not be difficult, for
the House had shown it was almost
unanimous in supporting his conten-
ton that reparations are sacred and
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