Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Belgian note is written in much the same style as the French. The British proposals are left in the lurch. The Belgian Government suggests a new Reparations program with new German guarantees. To the British Government these suggestions, while practicable, would lead only to further procrastination, whereas the constituent feature of the British note was " immediate action " to save Germany from imminent financial, economic, geographical and social disruption...
Lord Robert Cecil: "In the first of a series of articles written about my American tour, I declared that at Versailles President Wilson was not only faced by the inevitable hostility of the French, but was left in the lurch by the British delegates...