Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Plan the total was fixed at $8,806,000,000 cash. On the instalment plan, over an agreed stretch of 58 years, this sum will become, with cumulative 5% interest, 27 billions. This sum, huge though it sounds, is 116 billions less than the creditor nations demanded at Versailles ten years...
...standard annual payment under the Dawes Plan is 595 millions. The Young Plan reduces this to $487,600,000. Of this amount, Germany must pay unconditionally in cash and deliveries-in-kind about $158,400,000. The rest will be met by the sale of bonds, financed and guaranteed by an international bank of settlement, sold to private individuals in Europe...
Because he is a Roman Catholic and because it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the young Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...
Germany too was cheered at the prospect of a Labor government in Britain. All of the more liberal aspects of Britain's foreign policy were inaugurated by the last MacDonald administration. German optimists foresaw speedy evacuation of the Rhineland, quick ratification of the Young Plan...
...lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around for a while that...