General Dawes’ “legendary en
ergy." as M. Barthou put it, seemed
to send a draft of fresh air through
out reparations headquarters, which
never appeared to shelter so much
activity since the commission was
organized.
“Can he keep them up to it?" was
a question repeatedly asked around
the buildings, when It became
known that General Dawes would
propose that his colleagues work
night and day until they got some
where with the Inquiry. Other
members of the delegations are
heartily with General Dawes In the
desire to make as short work as pos
sible of their task, but some of them
are rather frightened at the idea
of three sessions dally. The general
has conceded a point by agreeing
that the night meeting should be
merely informal personal exchanges
of views between the members,
o o o
Havre* Mokes Good Impression.
The impression made by General
Dawes’ speech was in every way fa
vorable, inside and outside of repa
ration circles excepting extreme na
tionalists’ quarters, where his refer
ence to nationalist demagogues
caused some slight emotion. One of
the British delegates said: “The im
pression was most favorable; the be
ginning of the discussions augurs
well.”
Colonel James A. Logan, Ameri
can unofficial1 -observer on the rep
aration commission, expressed him- j
self to the same effect, while M. Bar- i
thou, president of the commission, 1
declared that the committee could
not have got to work under better
auspices.
