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...67th Congress made peace with Germany, revised taxes, cut government expenses, provided loans for farmers, reduced naval armament, passed a high tariff and a reduced immigration bill, ratified the British debt settlement...
...United States Government offering mediation between the French and Germans. It is not even sure that America would be willing to undertake the task, if asked; just now the French would certainly consider it an unfriendly action. The British Government, yielding to political pressure, may suggest that a settlement be decided by an impartial court or the League of Nations. At present indications point that the Government feels with Lord Derby, who recently remarked: "My heart goes with France, but my head remains on the other side of the Rhine...
...Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although a step of great importance, was distinctly of a non-partisan nature, while the two most important partisan measures, sponsored by the President himself, the Ship Subsidy and the Hague Court participation were smothered to death by his own confederates...
...average annual cost per British head of the settlement of the American debt is said to be one pound sterling. This will raise total taxation to about $90 per capita...
...nobody knows when the bad intentions of our enemies will compel us to get into the field." They ridicule France's attitude with regard to the Ruhr and spare no opportunity to cover that nation with caustic criticism. They have informed the Allies that they will accept no settlement of the Memel question unless they are consulted, holding that the port of Memel is of vital interest to Russian trade. With regard to the disturbance in the Vilna district, Russia openly accuses France of stirring up trouble by lending the Poles $25,000,000. It is a notorious fact...