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        <title>The report of the Minister of Finance to the Counsel of Ministers on the situation of Roumania created by the reparation and interallied debts policy</title>
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      <div>The reduced quota granted to Roumania by the Spa conference was con 
sidered to have been improved to a certain extent by the reparations owed by 
the allies to Germany. 
Thus, besides that Germany ’s debt has been reduced, Roumania is de 
layed in the recovery of her rights, by the moratoria accorded to Austria, 
Hungary and Bulgaria, and by the striking out of the reparations due by 
Turkey. 
Besides the claims deriving from the obligation of reparations from the 
former enemies, tbe treaties of peace imposed on Roumania certain obligations; 
the exchange of foreign money for national money, the restitution of transfer 
red property, and the quota of the public debt of the former Austro-Hungarian 
Empire. 
Now, while the claims against our enemies have been reduced or put 
off, the obligations of the Roumanian State have not been reduced, on the 
contrary, they have been even increased and mentained. 
In this way the succeeding states to the former Austro-Hungarian Mo 
narchy have been obliged, besides returning the value of the transferred pro 
perty and of a proportional part of the public debt to pay another debt, called 
"liberation debt-- in favor of the great allies as a reparation for the expenses 
of the war, reparations which legally ought to have been claimed from our 
former enemies. 
According to the stipulation of t the Treaties, the Roumanian State pro 
ceeded to change the currency which circulated in the annexed territories, an 
operation which culminated in an issue of paper money to the amount of 
nearly milliards lei (in which is included the issue of notes made by the hos 
tile army in the occupied territory), an issue which constituted together with 
the keeping back of the treasure in Moskow, one of the real causes of our in 
flation and the depreciation of our currency. 
Likewise, the obligations of the Roumanian State, in regard to paying 
the transferred property and the proportional part of the public debt, have 
been integrally mentained, and even ordered to be enforced by anticipation by 
the Protocole of Insbruck as we shall see in the following chapters while the 
recovery of Roumania’s rights was put off for a long period. 
At the same time the debt called "liberation debt" was wholy mentained. 
Now, can it be argued in a lawful and equitable manner that these obliga 
tions must be mentained while the so called liberation debt is enforced, when 
Austria and Hungary’s obligations which have not yet been determined, when 
their enforcement as well as that of Bulgaria’s debt has been put off for later 
on and when Turkey’s obligations have been annulled ? 
Can a more favorable regime be applied in a lawful and equitable manner 
to our former enemies while maintaining the obligations of the allied States 
without coordinating the obligations of the one with the obligations of the 
others and without connecting the claims with the debts resulting from the 
liquidation of the same objects.</div>
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