Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Approved a funding agreement on the $62,850,000 Jugoslavian War debt to the U. S.; sent it to the Senate...
...lira on a gold basis (TIME, Jan. 2), but it will not go further and issue gold coins. Secondly, the Government will shortly lift most of the restrictions on foreign trading and exchange transactions with private Italian interests. Thirdly, notice is again given that Italy will continue repaying her debt to the U. S. only so long as her receipts from German reparations continue...
During his address Count Volpi strikingly exhibited the fact that there are two opposed concepts of a debt. The first, generally professed by Anglo-Saxons, is that of an obligation which must be met simply because it exists. The second, based by Latins on experience, is to regard the entire voluntary repayment of a debt as a phenomenon both mystical and meritorious. Said Count Volpi...
...know what fate history reserves for the Washington-London debt settlements during the next sixty years. What is certain is that no further sacrifice can be asked of the Italian nation than the giving up of the whole of her German reparations to paying off her War debts...
...conciliation." Briand (apostrophizing Stresemann with blazing frankness): "Locarno gives us all the security on the Rhine we need, but ... if you Germans want us out [of the Rhineland] sooner than 1935 you will hurry along with the commercialization of your reparation debt and the fulfillment of all disarmament conditions, then we will be only too pleased to go. . . ." ". . . When he [Dr. Stresemann] takes a walk in the olive garden of Locarno he has the habit of stretching out his hand to receive rather than to give." Significance. At one stroke the problem of the Occupied Rhineland has been officially removed...