Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third week of last month Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparation Payments, perhaps the most powerful official in Germany, penned a stern, firm, yet friendly warning to the German Government that its extravagances were endangering the fiscal equilibrium of the Reich and imperiling the Dawes Plan...
...word concerning the despatch of the note appeared in the German press. A few days later, however, Berlin heard about it from Manhattan. Angered, the German press demanded full publication of the report, loudly denounced the Government's secrecy...
...presenting this memorandum for the purpose of calling attention to the dangers involved in the present economic situation, in the hope that by doing so fully and frankly at this time I may render some service to the German Government and to German economy, as well as to the international situation generally...
...That the Government, by sponsoring: a) increases in salaries of Federal employes, b) a costly new school measure, and c) indemnification of German nationals for property lost abroad during the War, a measure involving 1,000,000,000 marks ($250,000,000), had set in motion a serious financial crisis that could be overcome only by immediate retrenchment...
...have attempted to bring together the accumulating evidences of overspending and overborrowing on the part of the German public authorities, and some of the indications of artificial stimulation and overexpansion that are already manifesting themselves...