Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main points in the note are that Belgium, having received nearly 75% of her total reparations claim, now wants further priorities in future payments; that France, having agreed to a sum of 34,000,000,000 gold marks under the Spa agreement now wants a minimum of 26,000,000,000 gold marks plus what she owes to the U. S. and Great Britain, which is roughly another 27,000,000,000 gold marks; therefore, the total now claimed by France is virtually 53,000,000,000 gold marks...
Great Britain offers in the note to reduce her own claims on Germany to 14,200,000,000 gold marks, that sum being enough to pay her debt to the U. S. of $4,600,000,000. These payments from Germany would be treated as coming from France herself. In other words Germany will pay France's debt and Britain will waive her claim on reparations except for 2,200,000,000 gold marks needed to make up the difference between the British debt to the U. S. and the French debt to Britain. The note reminds Belgium that...
...democracy. . . . But democracy has not yet made the world safe against irrational revolution. That supreme task, which is nothing less than the salvation of civilization, now faces democracy, insistent, imperative. . . . It is against capitalism under one name or another that the discontented classes everywhere draw their indictment. . . . The sum of the whole matter is this: that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually...
...sum that France demands is impossible of payment I believe that an adjustment should be made, and that the allied nations should guarantee Germany's payment of that maximum within its capacity...
...life has been full of love affairs. Once he became so infatuated with an actress that he gave her many of the historic family jewels. Supporters were disgusted with him ; but were, fortunately, able to regain possession of the jewels for a large sum of money...