Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Examination Rules Lenient...
...fight for ratification of the U. S.-Italian Debt Settlement, in a speech closely paralleling that made at Philadelphia by Secretary Mellon. He appealed for Senate ratification on the grounds that "Italy is one of our best customers." He scotched any expectation that France will get as lenient terms: "There is no comparison between the two debts, and I want to assure the Senators now personally that no such settlement will ever be made with France as has been made with Italy." Simultaneously with Mr. MelIon's address, the Chancellor of the British Exchequer was speaking upon the same...
...remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were expected to compromise have been made clear by the Italian and British press for some months past. Mr. Churchill was acutely conscious that the British taxpayer believes himself to have concluded a far too lenient tentative Anglo-French debt settlement with the wily M. Caillaux (TIME, Sept. 7, COMMONWEALTH). Ergo, Mr. Churchill was expected to obtain proportionately more from Italy than he had been able to extract* from France. Britons roughly figure the full amount of Italy's debt to them at 580 million...
Representative Crisp made the majority report favoring ratification because he is one of the members of the Debt Funding Commission. Representative Cordell Hull, also a Democrat, made the minority report objecting vigorously to the Italian agreement, which is the most lenient that has been made...
...Court is thus lenient because of the military record of the accused during the World War, two-thirds of the members present at the time the vote was taken concurring...