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...Accord. The initialing of a Franco-German preliminary commercial accord, at Paris last week furnished substantial proof that the fiscal problems of France and Germany are indeed engendering a mutual fiscal interdependence unthinkable before...
...Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped out many a Tennessee mountaineer, many a Chicago gangster, many a hone of political potentates. Puzzled citizens often wondered why two such potentates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen no longer wonders. Last week Dr. Charles A. Moore, acting chief of the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress, announced the completion of the mounting and filing...
...been formed in a spirit of national reconciliation to meet the danger which threatens the value of our money, the liberty of our treasury and the equilibrium of our finances. . . . "There may arise later questions on which the Cabinet may differ, but today they are entirely in accord on the necessity, on the urgency and on the means of financial salvation. "We will submit to you in a moment a bill intended to cover the present insufficiency of our resources as compared with our commitments. To avoid for all time new risks of inflation we ask you to vote indispensable...
Simultaneously M. Caillaux received from Washington assurances that the U. S. will not, in the event of ratification of the Franco-U. S. debt accord, throw any bonds received in payment on the security markets of the world, a possibility under Article VII of the agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...
General Dalton is doubtless in accord with the proposed governmental action likewise announced last week: to offer for sale $27,000,000 worth of liners, including the entire United States and American Merchant lines. Excepting the Leviathan, these ships are, for the most part, of the "President" class formerly sold to the Munson and Dollar interests for little more than $1,000,000 each, with the stipulation, however, that the buyers would continue the service for a minimum of five years...