THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 21, 1929

¶Upon the President devolved, last week, perhaps the last world-great decision of his administration. He must choose two men of the U. S. to sit on the new Reparations Committee destined to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME. Jan. 14). These men will not sit for the U. S. since officially the administration is not concerned. Technically, the European Powers will revise the Dawes Plan of their own motion and volition. The two U. S. citizens will merely advise, and the U. S. public will merely buy some millions of dollars' worth of reparations bonds,...

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