Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech the leading topic and reiterated his Administration's insistence that there can be no connection between what Germany owes France and what France owes the U. S. France's debt to the U. S. has already been scaled down once, by the Mellon-Berenger debt-funding agreement of 1926. France has not yet ratified that agreement and likes to consider that her U. S. debt is still an open question. The legal life of the debt-funding commission has expired, however, and the Coolidge-Mellon attitude is that the question is closed. "They hired the money, didn...
Someone has called the Kellogg Peace Pact dead as a dodo. Signed in August at Paris with a pen of gold, welcomed with reservations by governments and with enthusiasm by peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British...
...against the military strength of France have been abandoned. It seems then that the British government now feels secure against that strength. It would appear that the entente of Britain and France has been so increased that "in event of war" cooperation between them is practically certain. This secret agreement between the French and British governments under the pressure of public opinion is being published bit by bit, just as much information once secret is now known about the outbreak of the Great War and about treaties between belligerents. Although the United States has stoadfastly refused to come to grips...
...Franco-British agreement provides no limitation whatsoever on six-inch gun cruisers, or destroyers, or submarines of 600 tons or less. . . . Such cruisers constitute the largest number of fighting ships now existing in the world...
...American Government feels, furthermore, that the terms of the Franco-British draft agreement, in leaving unlimited so large a tonnage and so many types of vessels, would actually tend to defeat the primary objective of any disarmament conference for the reduction or the limitation of armament in that it would not eliminate competition in naval armament and would not effect economy. For all these reasons the Government of the United States feels that no useful purpose would be served by accepting as a basis of discussion the Franco-British proposal...