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...said body of international law shall declare war a crime and no longer recognize, in any way or at any time, war as a legitimate institution for the settlement of international disputes. In other words, if war comes, it must be without the shield or sanction of law, but in violation of it as a piracy, or slavery, or peonage or murder...
...bill for the settlement of the "French Spoliation Claims...
...natural, before descending upon the French debt to the U. S., Mr. Churchill ventured a few words about the Anglo-American debt settlement. In his opinion, it was settled once and for all. There was positively no inference that Britain would at any time demand a modification of its terms. Indeed, if the contrary obtained, then the Chancellor's conclusions were rendered wholly nugatory. As he saw it, the debt settlement "has placed us in an extraordinarily strong position. We take our seat at the council board of the allied and associated Powers under obligations...
Concerning the settlement of the French War debt, Mr. Churchill stated in plain terms the attitude of His Majesty's Government. '"We consider it essential," he stated, "that any payments made by our debtors in Europe to their creditors in the United States should be accompanied simultaneously and pari passu [with equal pace] by proportionate payments to Britain." (Cheers...
...Italo-Grecian crisis a year ago, he fought for peace, for mediation, for a fair settlement with an honesty and a Tightness which could not be denied...