The settlement was effected before American representatives resumed their places in the allied councils. This has reduced senatorial fears to misgivings that at some future time we will become involved too deeply in the enforcement of reparation payments.
The administration maintains that the reparations question is of almost as much concern to the United States as to Europe, because the sooner Germany sets down to discharge its obligations the sooner europe will recover economically. and discharge: ts obligations to the United States. From this view point the participation of the United States in the reparations commission is deemed not only proper but imperative.—"Chicago Tribune."
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