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Governor Healy, "squat and square as the first Napoleon," rose amid cheers to pay tribute to King George for the part he played in the Irish settlement...
...turmoil and stress which used to prevail in South Ireland so wrung his Majesty's heart that, but for him, no approach to a truce or settlement would have been possible...
...common knowledge that King George insisted upon going to Belfast in 1921 against the advice of his Ministers. Moreover, he wrote his own speech-the speech which called for peace and settlement and which committed the British Government to making an agreement with the South (later the Free State)- and, so rumor has it, told Premier George, who threatened resignation, that that was the speech he would utter whatever he (the Premier) might do. Lloyd George has never denied this story, perhaps from a desire not to oppose the King; but the chief truth of this bald version...
...Britain's debtors are: Russia, France, Italy, Yugo-Slavia, Poland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Belgium. The total amount is about $10,000,000,000, but Britain is seeking only to collect $300,000,000 as a final settlement...
...request of the Treasury, Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain despatched notes to all debtor countries* urging that the time was ripe for settlement of their obligations. The notes stated that settlements need be only provisional, but stressed the principle that the debts must be paid equally and at the same time as those paid to "other powers"-"other powers" meaning the U. S. with whom Italy is discussing a settlement and France is preparing to discuss...