Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major possibility remains, the Italian debt settlement. This will meet opposition in the Senate as bitter and perhaps more forceful than it met in the House. Attempts have been made to line up the Democrats against it, but until recently these attempts have not succeeded. A number of prominent Democrats, notably Messrs. Underwood, Glass and Bruce, have stood out against making a fight on this issue. The Administration has stood solidly behind the settlement, contending not only that it is the best that can be got, but the only way of insuring any money at all from Italy. A combination...
...Italian debt settlement is not made into an issue, there is the possibility that politicians of both parties may go to the electorate next fall with the same cry, "We helped to give you tax reduction...
...preparing the party organization for the Congressional campaign next fall. The National Democratic Headquarters, which he stripped of almost all its employes after Mr. Davis' defeat, is being enlarged. Richard T. Buchanan of Indiana was appointed publicity director. Mr. Shaver is expected shortly to announce that the Democratic debt of $200,000 left over from the last campaign has been wiped...
...Paris the long expected Franco-Soviet Debt Conference got under way. Premier Briand gave it his benediction with the usual and now hackneyed invocation of "the Spirit of Locarno." There followed speeches slightly more to the point by the chief negotiators, the French Minister of Public Works and the Soviet Ambassador to France...
Ambassador Rakovsky: "I must declare that since 1919 we have proclaimed the desire to find a solution of the debt problem which will satisfy the little bondholders. Because of erroneous conceptions as to what has happened in Soviet Russia it has not always been seen in France that the solution of such a problem must be purely practical and take account not only of the interests of the French bondholders, but also of the changes in the psychology of the peoples of the Soviet Union and the necessity they are under of obtaining material assistance such as will permit them...