dwelt on the emotions aroused in him by his four visits to the devastated areas and said that the majority of the Germans were anxious to ce-operate in the work of reconstruction. He Aleploted the doubts cast on their proposals to deal with a task of such immense: difficulty.
Dr. von Simons declared that Mr. Lloyd George's statement that the German taxation was lower than that of the Allies was based on the Allied experts' wrong method of calculating and quoted' figures from a memorandum of the League of Nations in support of his contention that Germany was more heavily burdened than either England or France. He warned the Allies not to attempt to squeeze from Germany any more payment:
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