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...Majesty's Government entertains the hope that, if the French Government were prepared to make proposals on the lines here suggested, a settlement satisfactory to both countries might be reached...
...advantages to Britain are not at all clear but, as regards the U. S., the settlement of the Anglo-French debt question will permit France to say exactly what can be done to pay off her U. S. obligations. The rate of payment, if Mr. Churchill's famous pari passu declaration (TIME, Dec. 22) is adhered to, will not, to begin with, exceed the rate at which France is repaying her British debt...
With the exception of the private suits for damages, the entire settlement was made without a single lawsuit...
...friends like that, and there are many who share our opinion. France isn't pleading her cause. She has given her signature and she will respect it, but she demands as her right and not as an act of grace that there be taken into account in the settlement her side of the balance sheet...
...settlement shows that both parties compromised on their original demands. Russia, in. that she consented to negotiate before recognition was accorded (the reverse method with Britain and France has been a failure as regards the first country, and is likely to be so as regards the second). Japan, in that she consented to receive a simple apology for the Nikolaevsk massacre, the word of Russia to cease propaganda (she had demanded adequate guarantees) and a reduction of her concession demands...