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Dawes plan

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noun

  1. a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.


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Until the work of the drafting committee is complete, details of the so-called "Dawes plan" must remain unknown.

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Negotiations necessary to the inauguration of the Dawes plan will not take place until late next month, when the political clouds in France and Germany have rolled away.

From Time Magazine Archive

As utter chaos stares Germany in the face, if she reject the Dawes plan, its ultimate passage is certain.

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Premier MacDonald has been inflexible in his determination to seek an economic settlement of the reparations problems, and on this basis and that of the Dawes plan he met and rebuffed conflicting advances.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dawes plan and the new economics; with a foreword by Rufus C. Dawes. © 4Nov27; A1010939.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1954 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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