RADICAL COST-SAVING MEASURES AT THE CDR WILL COME INTO FORCE

The announcement of profound reforms and radical cost-saving measures in the organization of the reparations commission has aroused strong emotion among the staff of the Astoria.
And first of all, the vast and sumptuous Hôtel de l’Étoile will be abandoned by an administration that, for five years, had taken up its little and dear habits there. There will be a rental penalty to pay. But, all things considered, the move and the reinstallation of the reduced services, in more modest premises, will result in an appreciable reduction in expenditure.
Nothing has yet been decided concerning the suppressions and reductions in salaries justified by the establishment of the new organizations, instituted by the Dawes plan.
But one principle is definitely accepted: the total costs incurred by the application of the Dawes Plan, together with the total costs resulting from the reduced services of the Reparations Commission, must be much lower than the former budgets of the Reparations Commission, firmly resolved to devote the maximum of German payments to effective reparations.

We must therefore expect many withdrawals of secretaries, experts, editors, archivists, typists, etc.

The Commission has indeed asked the chairmen of committees and the commissioners established by the Dawes Plan to choose, as far as possible with equal competence, their collaborators from the staff of the Reparations Commission. But this request is optional, all freedom must logically be left to responsible agents.