Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...fight when no nation in Europe except France and Russia is in good fighting trim. But there have come enough facts from Europe to make it certain that Germany is already muttering about the next war, and France is frantically trying to stop it by screwing the lid ever tighter England has shown that it will not go with France under the latter's present methods. Germany cannot be stifled forever; eventually, unless there is some change in present tactics, there will come a war of retribution against France for forcing upon Germany a peace in fact just about...
...Germans will never pay France for what they have done unless a tighter hold than that at present, is kept on them," Professor Haffner said, when asked if he thought that the Germans had learned their lesson by the temporary loss of the Ruhr territory and would make an effort to pay their debt. "And we shall keep that hold on them if we are not hindered by our interested allies. The occupation of the Ruhr was undoubtedly successful by showing that passive resistance of Germany was a failure. France wants money and it is hardly fair to make...