CREDITS FOR FRANCE
GRANTED BY THE UNITED STATES. (Rec. February 22, 8.50 p.m.) Washington, February 21. Air. Nicholas Kelley, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, in charge of foreign loans, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that France had asked for and received <an additional three hundred million dollars credit from thy -United States in April, 1919, to cover outstanding commitments to the United States and Britain. Air. Kelley declared that the United States had financed the return of the Czecho-Slovak .troops from Siberia. Senator Reed attacked the grants, asking why the ''United States had paid France’s debts after tho fight had- ceased. Mr. Kelley said that .France wanted sixty-eight million dollars to cover a British' claim Against her. He decided that only eighteen millions were necessary. and the United States had advanced this, leaving a. fifty million credit, from which Franco was noy seeking to obtain twenty-one millions. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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150CREDITS FOR FRANCE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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