Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Clearly the Agent General's report supplies the Allied Powers with ample data from which to argue that Germany can well afford to pay her pound of flesh. But even Shylock experts will not lose sight of three arresting facts...
...Gilbert Report. Summing up four years of the Dawes Plan and anticipating the embryo Young Plan, the Agent General writes...
...that is to say in German goods which compete with Allied home production?the creditor powers will find it still to their advantage to knock off something from the German debt in return for a promise of more "cash" and less "kind." 3) The four years covered by the Report do not include the present so-called first Standard Year, in which the German Reparations annuity rises to its final level of 2,500,000,000 marks ($595,000,000). Even Agent General Gilbert cannot know from experience how well the burden of the Standard Years will be borne...
When Agent General Gilbert had had opportunity to peruse the extravagantly joyful comments of the French press on his report, last week, he very sagely said...
...tendency to interpret as prophecies for the future many portions of our report which were in fact mere statements of past happenings...