Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertain the belief that the cancellation of the debts in connection with, and as a part of, a program including the settlement of other War problems would have the effect above indicated. But I am equally clear that the cancellation of these debts with nothing more than the present reparations adjustment would not have the effect above indicated...
...immediate consequence of the new pact will be that Britain cannot, as in 1923, undertake to make payments to the United States for settlement of debts without previously consulting the French Government. The certainty of a concerted attitude is henceforth an accomplished fact which will facilitate success in negotiations with Washington...
...word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote in the Paris newspaper of the Agence Economique et Financiere...
...that the Allies will pay the U. S. proportionately no more than they receive from Germany*; 3) that the German people believe they cannot pay and are determined that they will not pay even the sum of 1¢ on the $1 of their Reparations debt envisioned in the Lausanne settlement...
...Heckled as to the exact meaning of the Lausanne settlement, gentleman's agreement and Accord de Confiance last week Premier Herriot told the Chamber flatly: "They mean that Frenchmen cannot be asked to pay more than they receive...