Greek Debt Settlement: Hearings...on H.R. 10760...1928 - 75 pages |
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1918 agreement accordance advances to Greece agreed agreement of 1918 allied American Government American memorandum approved Army Article assent Athens bank notes Bank of Greece Britain BURTON Canada Canadian loan cash cent CHAIRMAN CHINDBLOM claim Clause IV conclusion of peace Congress consent consideration Constantine contract credits CRISP debt commission December December 15 dollars drachmas exterior loan external loan floated foreign balances French francs full amount funds further advances gage affecté GARNER Georges Roussos Greece's Greek delegation Greek Minister HADLEY indebtedness International Financial Commission issued January January 16 League of Nations loan agreement ment military MILLS moral obligation National Bank original agreement owed paid payment pledge position question refugee loan release representatives Royal Greek Government Secretary settlement six months statement Supreme War Council surplus revenues three powers Treasury Department tripartite tripartite agreement United States Government Venizelos violation
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Page 2 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, is hereby authorized to...
Page 11 - February 26, 1898, in so far as the yield of these revenues is not required for the service of the loans having a prior charge upon the said revenues as enumerated in Annex II to the Greek loan protocol signed at Geneva, September 15, 1927.
Page 62 - ... into obligations bearing a higher rate of interest if bonds of the United States issued under authority of this Act shall be converted into other bonds of the United States bearing a higher rate of interest, but the rate of interest in such foreign obligations issued upon such conversion shall not be less than the highest rate of interest borne by such bonds of the United States...
Page 2 - Interest accrued and unpaid thereon to December 15, 1922, at the rate of 4}4 per cent a year 1, 765, 219.
Page 38 - STATEMENT OF HON. THEODORE E. BURTON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OHIO Mr.
Page 53 - ... drafts on one or the other of the lending countries in case the foreign balances of the Greek treasury and the national bank should fall below 100,000,000 francs. Six months after the conclusion of peace the balance of these advances will be available without the restrictions of the first paragraph. ARTICLE 4. The advances will be represented by obligations of the Greek Government. For each draft, and from the day on which it will have been made, these obligations will yield interest at a rate...
Page 8 - ... it is their intention that the present Agreement shall be considered to be in addition to, and not in substitution for, the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Greece, executed June 20, 1947, (including the provisions of a Note, dated June 15, 1947, of the Government of Greece to the Government of the United States of America which is referred to in said Agreement of June 20, 1947), 2. Al...
Page 36 - I should like to ask you to do — and I do not know of any reason why it should not be on the record — is to roughly translate wings into terms of men and planes.
Page 52 - The financial delegates of the United States of America, Great Britain, and France, as a consequence of the decision of the Supreme War Council, dated December 1, 1917, the American delegates, ad referendum, have approved the following agreement with the Greek Government : ARTICLE i. The Governments of the United States of America, France, and Great Britain agree to make advances to the Greek Government by equal shares during the year 1918 in order to allow them to get in their own country the credits...
Page 73 - ... shocked that they found on the record a statement from Lovett to the effect that he didn't think eiher you Democrats or we Republicans were capable of handling the country very well, and then he mentioned he was going to vote for Norman Thomas. TWL Enclosure. APRIL 20, 1943. The Honorable JOHN H. KERR, House of Representatives, Washington, DC DEAR SIR: I have just been informed that Robert Morss Lovett, secretary to the Governor of the Virgin Islands, as I think he is, has been called to testify...