Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, after Queen Wilhelmina's banquet, Mr. Snowden asked that the latest verbal offer of the Latins be put in writing. All that afternoon, all night, all the next day, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and his Latin colleagues toiled to document their offer, snatching only occasional catnaps, trying desperately to get the job done in time to have a few days' leeway for final dickering before M. Briand would be obliged to leave for the September session "of the League of Nations at Geneva...
...ultimately presented the Latins' written offer gave Great Britain an increase of $6,500,000, annually in her share of what the creditor powers receive in reparations. Surprisingly enough the major part of this concession was made not by France but by Italy, a fact the more notable because the Italian chief delegate, Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi, has not had a free hand, but has been forced to keep in hourly telegraphic touch with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, no softie...
...cake" (TIME, Aug. 19) was the German Foreign Minister's big chance. In the bitter fiscal struggle of France and her Latin allies to resist the demands of British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden it came logically about, last week, that both antagonists found themselves willing to offer political concessions to the Reich for maintaining a benevolent neutrality...
...course this tableau was staged for the benefit of the French press and in hopes of making Chancellor Snowden feel like a Shylock. The second move of the French was to join with Belgium, Italy and Japan in presenting to Shylock Snowden a highly complex "final offer" which they claimed met 80% of his demands. What could be fairer...
When Chancellor Snowden had studied the Four-Power offer he denounced it as actually giving Britain only 20% satisfaction. Once more he demanded 100%, vowed he would take not a farthing less than the $10,800,000 per annum more "spongecake" he had asked at first...