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Thumbing one's teeth is, of course, much more polite than thumbing one's nose. At the second Hague Reparations Conference, last week, Chancellor Philip Snowden of the British Exchequer thumbed only his teeth at his adversaries from across the Rhine, even-tempered German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and meek Finance Minister Paul Moldenhaur...
...demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...
Morgan, Dillon & Kreuger. Not less but if possible more pugnacious than Chancellor Snowden was Prime Minister of France Andre Tardieu (see front cover and p. 23). He hammered at the Germans day after day, trying to browbeat them from the three main positions taken by Dr. Curtius: 1) That Germany is entitled under the Young Plan to declare a moratorium at any time, should she deem herself unable to go on paying reparations; 2) That she shall not be liable to "sanctions" (military punishment) by the Allies for suspending payments in good faith because she cannot pay; 3) That...
Issue of Sanctions. The first thing that Curtius and Tardieu did at The Hague-once the conference had been formally opened by Prime Minister Henri Jaspar of Belgium-was to get together for a long secret conference at the Hotel des Indes where they were rumored to have exchanged high words...
...German position, which Dr. Curtius undoubtedly urged upon M. Tardieu last week, is: First that no punishment is provided for France if she decides to welch on her debts to Britain and the U. S.; second that Washington has within the past fortnight signed a separate financial agreement with Berlin in which there is not one word about "sanctions" covering payment by the Fatherland of the cost of U. S. occupation of part of Germany after the war; finally that Germany expects the Allies and particularly M. Tardieu to follow the lead of President Hoover in taking the word...