Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having pledged its honor to do so, Germany last week came to agreement with Belgium on the nettlesome Belgian Marks issue which for a time threatened to upset the Young Plan for adjusting Reparations (TIME, June...
...Hjalmar Schacht declared with equal insistence that he had no authority to do so. Chairman Owen D. Young saved his Plan by getting Herr Schacht and colleagues to promise that Germany would discuss marks with Belgium immediately after the Paris conferences were finished. Last week, quietly in Brussels, this agreement was made...
...would be if we could persuade the nations of the world to abandon the submarine for warfare! I think it must be said to the credit of this country that such a proposal was made years ago by Britain, but it has not been possible to achieve international agreement on the matter...
Refreshed by three days of comparative quiet, chunky, white-chinned Raymond Poincare, Prime Minister of France, stepped quickly to the rostrum, of the Chamber of Deputies last week. It was his final chance to convince the truculent Chamber that they must ratify the Mellon- Berenger debt agreement, a matter upon which not only France's commercial credit but the future of the Poincare government depended. M. Poincare's step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that...
White chinned Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, facing the facts, insisted that the agreement be ratified at once, as written, without reservation. Like bilious children avoiding bitter physic, the Deputies fought against ratification and used the issue as excuse to shin-kick the Poincaré cabinet. Meeting outside to Chamber, both the Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs voted to ratify the debt agreement provided that a reservation was inserted making France's payments to the U. S. conditional on Germany's payments to France under the Young plan. Patiently Premier Poincaré reiterated that this...