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...matter of war debts this certainly implies a change in public opinion. Evidently there is no longer a continuous hue and cry for the eye for eye and ducat for ducat of a less understanding past. The Italian government has been allowed to make terms of a lenient kind...
...that Mr. Frank's abilities were no whit diminished by the undue noise being made over them, and 2) that he, quite possibly, knew nothing whatever about the advertisement. Last week, however, the Washington Post issued a quarter-page thesis which sought to "sell" President be equally lenient in our judgment of this one. Exceeding even the suggestion contained in his very name, Mr. Frank seems to be definitely, 'Loud...
...course, such funding of the debts as has been done or as is in prospect is on much more lenient terms* than Mr. Yoakum proposed. Recently, he went to Mr. Coolidge with another proposal for funding outstanding debts. Mr. Coolidge referred him to Senator Smoot who is a member of the Debt Funding Commission. Mr. Yoakum saw Mr. Smoot last week and this time his terms were very lenient: 79 years instead of his former 50 for payment. He would likewise have the first year's interest payment be paid on he 79th year, the second year...
...Problem. In dealing with these next three debtors, the question will arise whether the terms granted them will be more lenient than those granted Great Britain and the other nations* who have already paid up. It seems that France, Italy, Belgium cannot, will not, agree to any form of settlement that is not much more lenient. If a more lenient agreement is made, how will Great Britain take it? How will Congress take it? Congress has long protested that it would not forgive a cent of foreign indebtedness; but partial debt forgiveness disguised as lower interest or a moratorium Congress...
These last merited superlatives are a lenient to the above protest, in the interests of truth, against eulogies of the Theatre Guild that have become a fixed habit. Caesar and Cleopatra is a brilliant entertainment; but, had it been produced by Lee Shubert, it would not have been equally eulogized...