Word: loan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for these loans is that France has particular interests to safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...
...Leffingwell as a " dollar-a-year" man during the War period performed notable financial feats for the Government. He was personally in charge of the huge Liberty Loan flotations. After the Armistice, he made a striking appeal for the cancellation by this country of the Allied debts to America, on the basis of not only sentiment but enlightened self interest. It is not yet time to say his view was incorrect; Great Britain alone of our debtors has made arrangements to settle her debts with us, and most of the Allied debts are notoriously uncollectible, and may always remain...
...United States Minister at Berne, capital of Switzerland, Joseph C. Grew, notified the secretariat of the League of Nations that U. S. representatives would attend the meeting of the Permanent Finance Commission of the League, for the purpose of considering a loan of $46,000,000 to Greece...
...news but in highly flavored comment. They represent some man, some group of men, some cause. Certain of them are openly subsidized by the Government. But the Government isn't the only keeper of the French press. It is said that any nation which wants to float a loan in France must first send checks to the French dailies. It is known that the Tzar's Government had on its payroll the most respectable Paris papers. And during the Versailles Conference it is asserted that the Italian Government subsidized several French journals to support its claim to Fiume...
...course of a long tirade against Hungary, Dr. Benes made it plain that Czecho-Slovakia backed France against Britain and the other Allies in the matter of refusing Hungary permission to raise an international loan freed from the obligations imposed by the Treaty of Trianon. The reason is, so far as he made it evident, that Hungary, unlike Austria, has accepted her treaty obligations only under protest...