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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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The most important condition was that Germany should accept the Dawes plan, as it might be amended by the Allies, and put into effect by September.

From Time Magazine Archive

Private negotiations relating to the Dawes plan were active, as were financial interests; these were said to be of "the greatest importance."

From Time Magazine Archive

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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