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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.

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His unbending attitude, strengthened by unanimous support at home and by Italy abroad, was considered to have been a strong point in favor of " unconditional acceptance of the Dawes plan by all the Allies."

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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.

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The Dawes plan in the making; with foreword by Frank O. Lowden. © 29May25, A829581.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office