Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to the many questions that flooded his office yesterday, Dean Pound made the following statement...
...people to a limited extent, that we ought to forgive the French debt because the French practically forgave the debt which we incurred during the American Revolution. As a matter of fact, the United States paid every dollar of the debt incurred at that time. I have the statement of the facts and figures furnished me by the Treasury Department, where the records are, disclosing a full settle- ment and a higher rate of interest than we are now proposing...
...black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase: "Let us put Right on the throne and Wrong...
...Socialist speaker turned furiously to where the voice came from: "Nothing could characterize the new German Government better than your exclamation. The Luther Cabinet is certainly a stage on the road toward rnonarchy." (Howls, cheers, jeers.) Count Westarp-fiery Monarchist-rose to make the surprising statement that his Party was resolved to support the Experts Plan: "Every German Government is bound to carry it out and we Nationalists realize quite clearly that we must cooperate in so doing. Now that we Nationalists have entered the Government, there can be no talk on Germany's part of breaking the agreements...
Dean Pound made no definite statement as to his plans for the future, but laughingly ascribed the large size of his audience to the prevailing belief that this meeting would be one of his "Last appearances in public...