Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always deadlocked over details before they got so far as "parity." Doubtless with these deadlocks in mind, Mr. MacDonald went on to say last week: "We have determined that we shall not allow technical points to override great public issues involved in our being able to come to a settlement." Loyal Help: Over 15 million dollars was to have been spent on building the war boats postponed by Britain last week- namely the cruisers Surrey and Northumberland, the submarine "mother ship" Maidstone, and two submarines. Thousands of workmen will have to be taken off these well-paying jobs. They...
...Lloyd George addressing Parliament, "that I felt I must have missed something when I first read it. I read it a second and a third time, and was confirmed in my feeling of amazement that it should ever have been presented to the British Treasury as a fair settlement of British claims...
...have been treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...
Last fortnight he directed from his sick room the ratification by the Chamber of Deputies of a bill approving the bitterly contested debt settlement by which France agrees to pay the U. S. some $6,847,674,104.17 over 62 years. Presently the Senate approved the bill 300 to 292, and President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree enacting the debt settlement into law. Not until then did the stern old "Lion of Lorraine" feel free to dash upon paper the final resignation he has so long wanted to sign...
...advanced to Finance Minister. 4) The whole Chamber was in an ugly mood because, just prior to M. Poincaré's resignation, the government with high-handed cloture put through a motion adjourning Parliament until autumn. This was done to throttle possibly mischievous polemics on the newly ratified debt settlement. But before M. Briand could form a cabinet he was obliged by custom to reconvoke the Chamber in special session, so that Parliament might endorse or reject his new government. Naturally a chamber just booted into adjournment