Treaty of Peace with Germany: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session on the Treaty of Peace with Germany, Signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919, and Submitted to the Senate on July 10, 1919U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 1297 pages |
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... obligations which Germany must assume under the treaty . That refers to paragraph 243. Attention should be called to this feature of the general process of settlement . Since Germany has large obligations to meet , more particularly for ...
... obligations which Germany must assume under the treaty . That refers to paragraph 243. Attention should be called to this feature of the general process of settlement . Since Germany has large obligations to meet , more particularly for ...
Page 13
... obligation of unknown and probably very great proportions . 2. The treaty should not compel the United States to use the private property of Germans in our country for the payment of debts owed by other Germans to our citizens . To do ...
... obligation of unknown and probably very great proportions . 2. The treaty should not compel the United States to use the private property of Germans in our country for the payment of debts owed by other Germans to our citizens . To do ...
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... obligations ? " And that was an essential part of the plan . It could not be worked out without that . Neither could ... obligation to take a German's property , or the proceeds of his property , and use it to pay another man's debt in ...
... obligations ? " And that was an essential part of the plan . It could not be worked out without that . Neither could ... obligation to take a German's property , or the proceeds of his property , and use it to pay another man's debt in ...
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... obligation to pay his debt . He is restored to his same claim against the same creditor in the same way as if there had been no war . He also has the additional protection of being allowed , if he likes , to go to a new arbitral ...
... obligation to pay his debt . He is restored to his same claim against the same creditor in the same way as if there had been no war . He also has the additional protection of being allowed , if he likes , to go to a new arbitral ...
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... obligation on our part to convene the conference . If we fail to ratify the treaty , it still stands as a request from other Governments to our Government to convene this meeting , and in that respect I look upon it as being entirely ...
... obligation on our part to convene the conference . If we fail to ratify the treaty , it still stands as a request from other Governments to our Government to convene this meeting , and in that respect I look upon it as being entirely ...
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