Word: owings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Borah importantly put forth a similar idea fortnight ago at Minneapolis. Last April Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed: "Let us say to the nations of Europe who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...
...kinds ought to be lowered. . . . This problem of the [War] Debts is complex. Great Britain, France and Germany have at last agreed among themselves concerning Reparations. The danger now is that they may turn a united front against us. This comes not so much from the debts they owe us as from our barriers against their trade...
...program: a moratorium to be followed by virtual cancellation of what Germany owes the Allies if the Allies obtain virtual cancellation of what they owe...
Such was not the case. The published agreement reached and signed at Lausanne is tentative. Moreover the signatories made a "gentlemen's agreement," the text of which was kept secret for 24 hours. In effect these two agreements: 1) Provide publicly a moratorium on the Reparations which Germany owes the Allies until after the coming U. S. elections and 2) create quietly a European "United Front" to force cancellation by the U. S. of most of what the Allies owe in War Debts, after which they will proportionately cancel Germany's Reparations debt to them...
...preferential primaries approached and the Roosevelt forces took the field in earnest, Mr. Smith announced last February: "I feel I owe it to the millions of men and women who supported me in 1928 to make my position clear. If the Democratic National Convention should decide it wants me to lead, I will make the fight but I will not make a preconvention campaign to secure the support of delegates...