Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfunded debts are simply "I.O.U.'s," mostly promises to pay on demand. Demand for payment has never been made. The U.S. has intermittently and circumambulatorily suggested that the "I.O.U.'s" be redeemed and the debtors have replied, sometimes politely, "Yes, yes, but at the moment I'm a trifle stony-do you mind...
...also said that the receipts from Germany would be utilized as follows: two-thirds for reconstruction work, one-third for payment of the U.S. and British debts. There was no possibility, he averred, of improvement in the position of the franc until France's external debt had been settled...
Last week, he ordered two of his large estates to be divided and distributed among his tenants on a deferred payment plan. He hoped that other grandees would follow suit. His tenants prepared to hold a series of festivals in his honor...
Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was reported to have said to U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick that the French Government might be able to pay the U. S. Government $100,000,000 a year, provided that such payment was understood to depend on French receipts from Germany under the operation of the Experts' Plan, without which France would not be in a position to pay anything. This suggestion (not to be regarded as an offer) was forwarded to Washington and a reply was anxiously awaited. It was understood, however, that any definite action would follow only on the settlement...
...says he has no money, ask him for his insurance policy. He can borrow the money on his policy for his first payment and he can save up for the other payments...