Word: memorandum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wires. Frenchmen, early pleased by the cordiality of Secretary Mellon's greeting to M. Caillaux, became angry, excited and somewhat defiant as the rejection of the initial French debt proposals became known. Phrases flew: "France bloodless, the U. S. stuffed with food . . . refuse to discuss the Mellon memorandum . . . Frenchmen slaves for 62 years ... the feudal U. S. mentality . . . 'virtuous' President Coolidge ... if M. Caillaux must return without an agreement all parties will approve...
...Department of State, writer of official notes to kings, ministers, directors, and potentates of the world, last week despatched a memorandum directed at a handful of U. S. citizens who have been piloting French airplanes in the war against the Riffs in Morocco...
...memorandum was merely a warning. It called attention to a section of the revised statutes which forbids the enlistment of U. S. nationals in foreign military ventures within the U. S. or in territory under its jurisdiction. (The U. S. has by treaty extraterritoriality jurisdiction over its citizens in Morocco...
...McCarl then waxed wroth, He wrote a letter to Attorney General Sargent. He said in almost so many words that the Department of Justice had not done its duty in presenting the case,, had failed to bring before the court lega points which he had suggested in a memorandum. He added "this office must decline to accept the memorandum opinion of the Court of Claims in this case...
...return herewith the Renewal Memorandum and marked by me "Not Wanted...