In These Circumstances The Only Thing Will Be To Make
the whole story of our financial dealings in the Great War clear to America. Though we confess we do not like the task of explaining our virtues, especially to our own kinsmen,......
We Have Dealt So Fully With Lord Balfour's Note Elsewhere
that we shall only record here that it was addressed to all the Allies—France, Italy, Serbia, Rumania, Portugal and Greece— who owe us War-debts, and quote one passage which is......
News Of The Week.
T HE event of the week has been the publication of the Government Note on the War Loans. It has been badly received in America, as we feared would be the ease. The American......
The French Premier, M. Poinear6, Is Coming To London Next
Monday to discuss with Mr. Lloyd George and with repre- sentatives of Italy and Belgium the interminable question of reparations, which has become more acute now that the German......
Lord Grey Of Fallodon Made An Interesting Speech At New-
castle last Saturday on the way to peace. His main point was that we all needed a sense of security. He quoted the legend on a French cartoon of the British and French Prime......
We Spent, We Lent, Like Heroes In Our Determination To
win in a good cause. We never thought of how we, as apart from the Allies, should benefit. No demand for pecuniary help that could possibly be granted was ever refused. We never......
But That Is Not All. In France Our Armies Respected
the financial sensitiveness of our Allies in a way which sounds almost incredible. We paid for the railway tickets of our soldiers as if they were tourists. We compensated the......
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