The Hague:
At the Second Reparations Conference, the
participants manage to subtract the U.S. share of Germany’s war debt payments
from the Young Plan calculations to refigure them in light of the separate war
debt deal struck by the U.S. and Germany.
France agrees to modify its idea of preserving the right to invade
Germany if it fails to make its payments, saying it would only have that right
if Germany willfully refused to
pay. This is considered important should
the radical nationalists (such as the ones who opposed all war debt payments last year) ever take power in Germany.
But the whole
conference almost derails over a comment allegedly made by French Prime
Minister Andre Tardieu. The Havas news
agency reports that Tardieu, becoming frustrated with negotiations, said the
German delegation didn’t have the “capacity” to negotiate. Upon hearing of this, the German delegation,
including Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer, cancel a scheduled private meeting with Tardieu and threaten to
take a train back to Berlin. Tardieu
defuses the situation, however, denying he ever made the statement, and saying he is
therefore glad to remove the cause of misunderstanding.
Elsewhere:
New York: 150 communists picketing outside a
manufacturing plant attack police officers.
65 are arrested. Meanwhile, more bad economic news: William Green,
President of the American Federation of Labor, says unemployment in America has
reached 3 million.
Rome: Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and Italian Crown
Prince Umberto II are married.
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