Elected three years ago and considered "extremely moderate" in comparison with most German chambers elected since is the Prussian State Diet, representing two-thirds of the Fatherland. Last week the Diet debated revision of the Young Plan, soon to be considered by a new Reparations committee (TIME, Nov. 30). Quietly a motion was put demanding that the German Government seek "revision having for its aim complete cessation of any kind of tribute payments" (Germans consider Reparations "tribute").
Decorously the motion passed with not a single dissenting vote. Ninety-two Deputies abstained, but the 184 affirmative votes were stark handwriting on the world's...