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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determining capacity of a nation, the report of the Dawes Commission has shown that there are two principal elements: 1) the capacity to collect in a country from its people the necessary money, and 2) the transfer of the money so collected in the national currency to the creditor country in the currency of the latter...
Capacity to Transfer. One point the Italians brought up was that part of the capacity to pay included the capacity to transfer. It is all very well for Italy to collect money from her own people to pay her debts, but how is that money to be transferred across the ocean? Italy has no gold to speak of that she might send. Obviously the payment must be made in goods. But Italy has been importing more than she has exported. Last year her imports were about 50% greater than her exports, and considering only U. S.-Italian trade, Italian imports...
...part of my duty to put the load of the present imperialistic wars and France's military establishment upon the taxpayers of the United States. You say we can only get what France is willing to pay; that we are not going to war to collect this debt. No, we are not going to war to collect this debt. If France wishes to repudiate her debt before the peoples of the world, that is her costly course if she chooses to take it. But I do not conceive it to be any part of the duty of an American...
...suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible for the War and should...
Miss Mabel Vogel, of the Winnetka, Ill., public library, seeing what a business it is for parents and teachers to find the right reading for the young idea, enlisted teachers in 35 cities to collect ballots from 36,700 school children and enable her to make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared...