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...Tell me, Herr Graf," said the Chancellor, "what I can do to insure French security and I will do it willingly, if it does not bring dishonor or menace to my country...
Last December England paid its installment in full, hoping that this lone honor would give power to its pleas for cancelling the account. This winter will find the situation altered, with an English government unwilling to assume the political dishonor of being the only one not to default. The United States, having taken neither official satisfaction from the full payment of December, nor official umbrage at the token of June, has left it in the able hands of Mr. Oltamberlain to shift from business ethics to hard reality. America must make the same change in its own attitude...
...entire gold supply of the world, why are we going off the gold standard? Foreign governments could withdraw less than $700,000,000 of our gold, which would leave us an ample fund. . . . The suggestion that we may devalue the gold dollar 50% means national repudiation. It means dishonor! It is im- moral! . . . There never was a necessity for a gold embargo, for making statutory criminals of citizens who may please to take their property in gold out of banks. . . . "If there were need to go off the gold standard, very well, I would...
...Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne." From this M. Herriot made a smooth transition to: "Messieurs! The Premier of France has come before you to ask you to honor the thing which is more sacred than anything else -the Signature of France. I personally refuse to dishonor it. ... We must avoid the isolation which surely would follow default." But the possibility of default loomed larger and larger. Premier Herriot, ignoring the Stimson "No" to Britain's first note, prepared a note nearly identical in import, confidently submitted it to the committees on Finance and Foreign Affairs. While...
...Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book had indicated. To better them she began by building a wooden chapel-school in the Indian Territory for the Osages. When a cyclone wrecked it she built another, then...