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...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...
...called a "British-American Message to the Churches and to All People of Good Will." They said they accepted the Kellogg Treaty "in spirit and in fact" and would "discountenance any and all expressions or acts which contemplate as possible the use of any but pacific means for the settlement of disputes or conflicts, etc., etc." Super-pledge was longer than super-treaty. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches was the name under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James...
...offending her possible sources of credit, especially the United States, but once her prosperity is restored to its pre-war condition it may prove no easy task to enforce the provisions of any treaty made at this time. Laudable as is the achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement out of the sharp divergences of opinion that preceded the conference, no human agency can forsee the needs of half a century to come, and the most optimistic supporter of the conference can hardly hope that it has closed the problem permanently...
Subject to the settlement of a few remaining points of difference that still separate the German and Allied delegates, the Reparations Conference has finally arrived, after weeks of discussion, at an agreement over the total amount of Germany's war debt. The figures represent a triumph for the German stand that is best appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor...
...retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...