Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Irish Free State is admittedly too poor ever to pay the undetermined hundreds of millions of pounds which it might eventually have been adjudged to owe the Empire, Mr. Baldwin's logic was widely considered irrefutable. President Cosgrave spoke of the agreement as marking "a turning point in Irish history" and likely to strengthen the Free State's unstable credit. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, went so far as to propose that the Ulster border police be disbanded as a definite fruition of the present accord...
...Locarno policy as right, then must every German who is not soaked with black-red-gold or sold to mammon, veil his head. Then the Field Marshal President is become a danger for the national will. His name does not belong under this treaty. That at least does he owe to his fellow-warriors. We expect the Field Marshal not to sign but to fight...
...possibility of coming to an understanding. . . . "Italy should not feel humiliated or fretful over my mission to America. There is nothing humiliating in paying one's debts, and America is quite within her rights in expecting us to pay as much as we can of what we owe her. If Italy acted otherwise she would not be living up to her reputation for square dealing...
...question of gratefulness on either part. If perhaps America owes us something, we also owe her a great deal. These facts are in every mind...
...forget, and no one in our country will ever forget, what we owe to America for her splendid work to end victoriously the War and for the generou. help our people received from citizens of the United States in time of need. Neither do we forget, and we feel sure nobody on this side of the Atlantic forgets, the ties knotted between both our countries at the end of the eighteenth century...