Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gist of M. Despret's condemnation was that transfer of enormous amounts of money from Germany to other countries was impossible. If, therefore, payments had to be made in kind or in services, how could transfer of goods be made without harming the creditors, and how could services be made to pay reparations without prejudice to the creditor country's industry and trade and injustice to its laboring classes? It simply could not. M. Janssen, Belgian Finance Minister, was of a similar opinion...
...gist of his long speech was that the "United States and the British Empire are today each others' best customers," but that, if the U. S. and other countries did not buy more from Britain, it would be impossible for the latter to continue to buy raw materials in large quantities; that, if Britain could not improve her export trade, it would, despite the best intentions, be impossible for her to continue paying her U. S. War debt. The resultant economic situation, the Ambassador thought, would not be fatal to the U. S., "but it will be unpleasant." From...
From this moment, there began a bombardment on his character and his dangerous heterodox leanings, led by Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and others who did not stop at calling him the "Little Corporal." The gist of this attack was that Trotzky was trying to substitute Trotzkyism for Leninism. It was alleged, according to an official document, that his attacks "had been interpreted by the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats [Menshevists] as a sign of a split within the Russian Communist Party, and consequently as the disruption of the dictatorship of the proletariat"; that he had "declared war against the very...
...gist of his remarks was that M. Herriot had achieved much in coming to a reparations settlement with Germany and that he should feel great satisfaction therein. The President went on to say that he had read with sympathy the view expressed in the newspapers that the Premier's financial difficulties were inherited and not of his own making...
Minister of War, hitherto regarded as one of Mussolini's closest friends and advisers. He came to the Bill's support. The gist of his defense was this: Italy cannot afford to keep such a large army as 200,000 men; this being the case, it is better to have the Army small, well equipped than large, badly equipped...