At the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) met the Finance Ministers and representatives of the Allied and Associated Powers.** Their task was to decide how the proceeds from the Experts' Plan are to be paid.
According to the Spa Agreement (June, 1920), division of moneys extracted from Germany was to have been made as follows:
France 52%
Britain 22%
Italy 10%
Belgium 8%
Others (excluding the U. S.) 8%
Along came the U. S., however, to demand payment of $250,000,000 for the cost of maintaining a Rhine Army and $350,000,000 for War damages.
Britain claimed that...
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