rhe reports that France and possibly Moly propose reopening discussions on the subject of the payment of their debts to the United States, has aroused in some quarters fa believe that Great Britain will take this opportunity of doing the same thing. "The maller is not so simple, however, as would appear on super= ficial examination, for it fs clear that the ease of Great Britain is not on all fours with those of France and Tlaly. Those. two countries owe to. Britain no fess. than £1,000,000,000, while the British debt to the United States as on October 1, 1094 was £040,000,000 at the present rate of exchange. Payments of war debts by the "two countries mentioned to Britain' were suspended, as a result of the Lausanne Conferesice on July 1992, and it is apparent that, if there fs to be any real prospect of Britain resuming payment of her debt to the United States, it will be necessary that she should receive no incon
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