Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly remunerated barrister. Slow in walk and gesture he is lightning quick of mind and he is tireless. Last week he became Chairman of the League of Nations preparatory commission which will organize and stage the World Economic Conference at which the Allies will ask the U. S. to cancel or reduce their War Debts...
...Truth? Thus France nailed again & again to the mast her understanding that united Franco-British pressure will be brought to bear on the U. S. to cancel War Debts. The French attitude only hardened under President Hoover's blast against such pressure and under the following observation soon made by Scot MacDonald...
...gentlemen's agreement," the text of which was kept secret for 24 hours. In effect these two agreements: 1) Provide publicly a moratorium on the Reparations which Germany owes the Allies until after the coming U. S. elections and 2) create quietly a European "United Front" to force cancellation by the U. S. of most of what the Allies owe in War Debts, after which they will proportionately cancel Germany's Reparations debt to them...
This arrangement plays into the hands of U. S. foes of the League of Nations and of cancellation. In Congress and out they can be counted on to raise the alarm that the League, of which the U. S. is no member, will stage and supervise the conference at which World pressure will be put on the U. S. virtually to cancel War Debts...
...Committee said: "We have something yet to learn. I am going to wait a while to get the facts." The Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite Minnesota's Shipstead exploded: "If any official of the United States Government has led agents of foreign governments to believe we will cancel debts owed to us for cancellation of Reparations he is very nearly guilty of treason to the United States! He certainly is guilty of swindling foreign governments...