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...must be borne in mind that we have funds which are to be expended not in lieu of State or local relief but to be supplemental thereto, if, when, and as necessary. "We feel persuaded that the Legislature of Pennsylvania and its several political subdivisions have not done their full duty with respect to furnishing funds for relief purposes. . . . We shall defer action until we know what the Legislature will do for the relief of its own people...
...Canada is 35 times as large as New Zealand," said New Zealand's Coates. "and let us hope her heart is proportionately generous." His Majesty's Lieu-enant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, plump, guttural J. W. Fordham Johnson, sped the delegates to their train for Ottawa. Croaked he: "Anything short of success at this Conference might well have unthinkable results...
Ottawa, at the very least, will present a Royal pageant: the Governor General in his twinkling car (with a gilt crown, in lieu of license plates, projecting from the roof in front) sweeping up Parliament Hill; the blare of trumpets, salutes and the opening of the Conference by His Excellency in the Parliament Building; the singing of "God Save the King"; state dinners at Rideau Hall, informal dances at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club and Their Excellencies' Garden Party?all these will suggest the pomp of London (pop. 8,000,000) in Ottawa...
...Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore (Dem.) demanding whether "the European Powers which are indebted to the United States and which received, as a result of the War, an allotment of Germany's colonial possessions would prefer to transfer such territory ... to the United States in payment ... in lieu of ... cash...
...creditor powers accept, in lieu of Reparations, bonds to be issued by Germany with a face value of four billion marks...