Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the International Confederation of League of Nations Societies, Count von Bernstorff (German Ambassador to the U. S. before and during the first two and a half years of the War) said that the League idea was growing in Germany and that its machinery would be necessary to unravel the reparations tangle...
...passive resistance must cease, second, that there shall be no examination by outsiders of Germany's capacity to pay, and finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle or can cut this Gordian knot, he will rank as the greatest statesman--or the greatest diplomat--of the twentieth century...
...representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...