Word: pospisil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vilem Pospisil may pat himself on the chest. In three days in Washington he funded the debt of his country, Czecho-Slovakia. (Joseph Caillaux spent more than a week in Washington, but failed to reach a permanent debt-funding agreement between France...
...sure Dr. Pospisil came to settle a debt of only 117 millions instead of 4 billions, but he had some special difficulties of his own -notably a disagreement over the principal sum. The Czecho-Slovakian debt was contracted after the War and comprised several items including purchase of War supplies, relief supplies, flour, cash ,advances, repatriation of Czech soldiers from Siberia...
...Pospisil took a short cut. Said he: "As there are a number of disputed items between us as to the capital sum of the debt, we believe that, instead of entering upon the very large expense and delay involved on both sides by a reaccounting, we are prepared to yield on some considerable part of these items and to propose to you a round sum of settlement-that is, that we should consider the capital of the debt as at June...
There was then only a formal agreement to be drawn up and Dr. Pospisil, smiling, was ready to go home to the depositors of his savings bank in Prague...
...Czecho-Slcvakian debt mission arrived in Washington and opened negotiations with the U. S. debt commission, for the funding of Czechoslovakia's reconstruction debt of $117,000,000 to the U. S. Dr. Wilem Pospisil, Director of the Savings Bank of Prague, heads the foreign negotiators. The rest of the commission consists of Karel Kucera, Karel Barbenec, Dr. Eugene Lippansky, Zikmund Konecny and the new Czech minister to the U. S., Colonel Fierlinger...