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The Dawes Report on German Reparation Payments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

George A. Finch
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Extract

The completion and transmission to the Reparation Commission on April 9th last of the report of the expert committees appointed by it to “consider the means of balancing the budget and the measures to be taken to stabilize the currency” of Germany and to “consider the means of estimating the amount of German exported capital and of bringing it back to Germany” mark a further step in the efforts of the Allied Governments to give practical effect to the reparation clauses imposed upon Germany by the Treaty of Peace signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1924 , pp. 419 - 435
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1924

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References

1 See press notice of the State Department, Dec. 12,1923.

2 See the decision of the Reparation Commission of March 21,1922, on the subject of the payments to be made by Germany in 1922, and its modification on Aug. 31, 1922, printed in Supplements to this Journal, Vol. 16, 1922, Vol. 238, and Vol. 17, 1923, Vol. 40.

3 For text of the plan see British blue book, Inter-Allied Conferences on Reparations and Inter-Allied Debts, Misc. No. 3, 1923, pVol. 112-119.

4 For the text of the French plan, see Misc. No. 3,1923, pp. 101-101.

5 Misc. No. 3, 1923, Vol. 194.

6 Ibid.

7 New York Times, Jan. 15, 1923, Vol. 1.

8 For the subsequent discussions between the Allied Governments concerning the legality of the occupation of the Ruhr, see the editorial b y the writer in this Journal for October, 1923, Vol. 17, pp. 724-724.

9 Text of the decision of the Reparation Commission in New York Times, Jan. 27, 1923,Vol. 1.

10 Text of note to Reparation Commission, London Times, Aug. 14, 1923, Vol. 8.

11 By the middle of September, 1923, Berlin was supplying the Ruhr population with paper

12 For the text of the German proposal of June 7, 1923, see British white paper, Correspondence with the Allied Governments respecting Reparation Payments by Germany, Misc. No. 5(1923), pp. 2-2.

13 For the identic reply to the German Government proposed by the British Government,see Misc. No. 5, 1923, pp. 22-22.

14 Text of proclamation in New York Times, Sept. 27, 1923, Vol. 2.

15 For the British and American exchange of notes of October 13-15, 1923, see World Peace Foundation pamphlet, Vol. VI, No. 5, entitled “ Reparation—Part V—The Dawes Report,” pp. 338-338. See, also, the communique of the French Foreign Office, Oct. 28,1923, in reply to the proposal of the British Government for the creation of a committee of experts, ibid., pp. 342-342.

16 Text of note to Reparation Commission, New York Times, Oct. 25, 1923, Vol. 2.

17 London Times, Dec. 1,1923, Vol. 10.

18 Reports of the Expert Committees appointed by the Reparation Commission. Cmd.2105.

19 British blue book, Cmd. 2105. Vol. 126.

20 Text in London Times, Oct. 29, 1923, p. 12.

21 Current History, Feb. 1923, pp. 844-844.

22 Text of communique in the London Times, April 12, 1924, Vol. 12.

23 Text in the London Times, April 17, 1924.

24 Text of communique in the New York Times, April 18, 1924, Vol. 1, and of the letter of the Reparation Commission to the Allied Governments, April 17,1924, in L’Europe Nouvelle,May 3, 1924, Vol. 582.

25 French text in L’Europe Nouvelle, May 3, 1924, pp. 582-582. English texts in the New York Times, April 27, 1924, pVol. 1, 3.

26 London Times, April 29, 1924, Vol. 12.

27 Washington Post, June 26, 1924, Vol. 1.

28 See summary of this agreement in this Journal , Vol. 17, 1923, pp. 513-513.

29 These two treaties are printed in the Supplement to this Journal , 1922, Vol. 16, pp. 10 and 171. The treaty of peace incorporates the pertinent provisions of the Joint Resolution of July 2,1921.