Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intentions. At the opening of the negotiations Mr. Mellon said to Count Volpi: "In negotiating with you a settlement of the debt, this Commission will apply the principle of Italy's capacity to pay and will give due weight to the special conditions existing in your situation. We shall, I am sure, come to terms which will be within Italy's power to fulfill without undue pressure upon her or her people, and which will also recognize the sacrifices made by the American taxpayer in the advances to our Treasury...
...this Count Volpi replied: "Upon starting the present negotiations, Italy accepts the principle laid down by the American Debt Commission that each debtor nation shall be considered independently and shall repay its debt within its particular capacity...
...down the facts and then the two commissions formed two sub-committees to consider 1) capacity to pay and 2) capacity to transfer. The problems were thrashed out jointly with the expectation that suitable terms would develop from the joint labor. An interesting feature of the meetings is that Count Volpi knows no English and is obliged to rely on an interpreter...
...have been cases in this country where one of them, upon being arrested and fined for speeding, has objected to the State Department and received an apology and a refund of the fine. But Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then he entered a protest to the State Department-asked an apology and his money back, asserting that...
...have, of course, every desire to conform completely to diplomatic usage, and if you advise me that diplomatic usage in a case of this kind requires me to accept Count Porta's version of the occurrence, notwithstanding the statement to the contrary of the State police officer and three reliable witnesses, then I shall be very glad to consider again the question of returning to Count Porta the $30. These witnesses say he paid by way of compensation for the damage...