Word: debtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guarantees of security which will not be illusory. In the Experts' Report, to which, as proof of our conciliatory spirit we have hastened to give our adherence, the problem of reparations seems to be evolving toward a solution. For that, however, it is essential that the debtor give as large proof of good will and good faith as the creditor and that this proof be given by facts and not by simple promises without assurance for the morrow...
Those of your fellow-countrymen who believe that France dreams, or has dreamed, of political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken. As the creditor of Germany. France is not so mad as to wish to reduce her debtor to poverty. It is in the interests of France that Germany should work, produce and recuperate...
...creditor "not so mad as to wish to reduce her debtor to poverty...
...present chronic ailment and said that "the internal disruption of Germany which we had all along feared, but which we had consistently been told to regard as a bogy ... is not merely an ominous political symptom; it has pretentious economic significance, for it means the ultimate disappearance of the debtor himself." The tenor of his speech was distinctly anti-French, a fact which caused Lloyd George's heart to rejoice and M. Poincare's hair to rise in anger. He said that Britain awaited French proposals relative to a common policy to be pursued against Germany, because Britain...
Gold still continues to pour into the United States from her debtor nations abroad. In July the balance of gold imported amounted to $27,477,000; for the seven months of 1923 net receipts of foreign gold here totalled $137,000,000. Thus, even though Europe is paying her debts to us with lessening amounts of merchandise, she is still employing gold for this purpose...