International indebtedness involves not only the usual slavery of debt, but the interest of the creditor nations in the debtor country. (Gustav Stresemann)

International indebtedness involves not only the usual slavery of debt, but the interest of the creditor nations in the debtor country.

Gustav Stresemann

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