Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of policy the Germans are as adamant as ever in their conviction to resist the French. The " Franco-Belgian Entente " says that the real object of the Ruhr is to speed up coal deliveries, which seems tantamount to admitting defeat. They have, however, decided to requisition coal in the pits with their own labor backed by force, if the mine owners fail to pay a coal tax. But the true aim of the French and Belgians seems to be a separate agreement with Germany and the abandonment of the Versailles treaty...
...Because Senator Harding, while admitting that he has "no single constructive purpose," intends to formulate some hazy substitute League that will have the merit of Republican, not Democratic, authorship. This is tantamount to admitting that he would ask the 43 members of the present League, which has already prevented one war and stopped another, and which in the words of ex-President Taft conflicts at no point with the United States Constitution, to renounce their hopeful work, disband their League, and, to please him and the Republican Party, "rub it out and do it all over again...