Aim of Conference to Ple ithe Allies to Parts. of Dawes'Report Rome, July 5.
The British Government's letter of invitation to Italy to attend the London Conference seys that the main aim of the Conference will be to forge an instrument of accord formally pledging the contracting parties to the execution of some of the suggestions of the Dawes re-ort, which would be signed by the Allies. and Germany. on the part of the Allies to modify:
British Government favours. fixing in the protocol a date by which Germany should complete the Tegislation and other measures she would be required to adopt, and a later date, perhaps a fortnight after the first, date, when all the economic andvufiseal sanctions at present jenforeed on, Germany, which in" terfere withthe economic activities. of the country, would be withdrawn.
The invitation proposes that the protocol should include a stipulation establishing in the event of a flagrant failure on Germany's part, an authority that would decide with of the Treaty.
Reparations Commission Superseded.
Engagements into which Germany may enter according to the Dawes report would rank before those impoured on her by the Treaty of Verscilles, and therefore the British Government are of opinion that the task of deciding the question of flagrant non-execution cannot, be entrusted to the Reparations Commission, the functions of which are strieily' determined by the Treaty.
proposed hal to the of the Longe of Nations, The protocol would also a clause providing that differences in regard to interpretation of this stipulation should be referred to the International Court of Justice, The invitation emphasizes that M. Herriot and Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald have not entered into any engagement. It says that it is pro posed that, ar soon ax the Confer= ence has arrived at definite accord, Germany should be invited to meet the Allies in discussions, but not for The instrument might be in the|the purpose of being.' confronted form of a protocol, as it ix intended with a document in n final form to to avoid any appearance of a desire be accepted o rejected—Reuter,
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