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...Reparations Commission, a body provided for in the Treaty of Versailles, its duties having largely been transferred to the organization executing the Experts' Plan, decided to vacate the Hotel Astoria in Paris (its headquarters) and move to less pretentious premises. At the same time, the personnel is to be drastically reduced and no high salaries are to be paid. The cost of maintaining the Commission was well over a million dollars a year...
...generous gesture, a truly diplomatic move...
Again the generous gesture, the truly diplomatic move, the spirit of friendliness with which John Hay, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, finding the sum of the indemnity awarded in excess of legitimate claims, returned the balance in the form of a similar fund for Chinese students...
...Move towards the Barrier with a Sprightly Pace...
Exactly what she expected to accomplish by this strategic move the account does not explain. However, it failed since Daniel...