Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Does this British exception about equal treatment mean America...
...connection between French debts to Britain and the U. S., yet from the French standpoint it was necessary to know how much one must pay the first debtor in order to know how much there would be left to pay the other. The London agreement (see COMMONWEALTH) for equal treatment for the U. S. and Britain settled that uncertainty...
From Congressman F. H. La Guardia of New York, one time World War aviator, never backward at speech, came vituperation unequivocal and pungent. Congressman La Guardia had watched the tests from the air. Said he: "A waste of the taxpayers' money . . . the cost of the test will equal the cost of three up-to-date planes . . . Anti-aircraft defense from the ground is as inefficient today as it was during the War -. . Put the money into the air service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might...
Apparently forthcoming developments are expected to be of delicacy equal to their importance. It is not unlikeliy that the negotiations for a security pact may be entering into their final stages...
...Caillaux has not the facility with la langue anglaise of his compatriot, M. Briand, who two weeks ago paid so amiable a visit to England concerning the proposed security pact with Germany. But the keenwitted French master of finance doubtless counts himself fully equal to the problem of dealing with Mr. Churchill on the question of France's debt to England...