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Report discussing the Greek war debt to England.

173.047.17 · 1926 Δεκέμβριος 1926 · Αγγλική · machine-generated, not reviewed

Archivist's abstract & metadata
Title (el)
Έκθεση που αναφέρεται στο πολεμικό χρέος της Ελλάδας προς την Αγγλία.
Archivist's abstract
Γίνεται αναφορά στις συμφωνίες του Φεβρουαρίου 1918 και Μαΐου 1919, στο διακανονισμό του πολεμικού χρέους της Ελλάδας προς την Αγγλία και θέτει τρία ερωτήματα σχετικά με την αξία του πολεμικού υλικού, τον τρόπο αποπληρωμής του πολεμικού χρέους και τις πιστώσεις.
Document type
Έκθεση
Original/copy
Αντίγραφο
Mentioned
Μεγάλη Βρετανία
Keywords
Σχέσεις της Ελλάδας με τη Βρετανία · Πολεμικό χρέος της Ελλάδας · Δάνειο του 1918
Subjects
Δάνεια · Οικονομικές σχέσεις Διεθνείς · Άμυνα Εξοπλισμός · Οικονομία Δημόσιο χρέος
Source
https://venizelosarchives.gr/show/13319 · Europeana
Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Accessed 2026-11-09

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173.047.17 p. 19

Original text (diplomatic transcription)

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it were borne in mind that for her war debt to England, at present amounting to £570,000,000, Italy will pay over 62 years in all £272,000,000 or 47.72% on her aforesaid debt. Whereas for Greece's war debt - which according to the figures given by the Treasury amounts to £230,000,000 in round figures, and as we claim only to £10,825,025 after the deduction of the war material of 1918, - we are asked to pay in 62 annual instalments altogether £36,650,000, i.e. on the present amount of our Debt, 177% according to the figures of the Treasury and 336% according to our own, in other words nearly four times or seven times as much as Italy, in proportion. In order to arrive at a proposal of such a solution the Treasury firstly base themselves on our population in comparison with that of Italy. Such a basis, according to which, our population being 6,300,000 and Italy's 42,000,000, the wealth of Greece or rather her national income and therefore her paying capacity is in respect to Italy as 2 - 15, is quite unfounded as is apparent at first sight. That this contention is unfounded becomes even more apparent when it is remembered that on this basis we shall be made to pay much more than what we should have had to pay if we had come out of the war victorious, on account of the fact that through our defeat our population increased by 1,800,000 refugees. In the second place His Majesty's Treasury take into account the budgets of Greece and Italy in order to find out the respective paying capacity of the two countries. (Revenues of the Italian Budget for 1925 - 1926, £169,000,000. (Lire 30,500,000,000) and of the -19-

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  • stamp ΜΠΗ bottom_right
  • archival Page 19 of 29. top_left
  • handwritten_note 1926 Δεκέμβριος 1926 top_right

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Turkish

göz önünde bulundurulursa daha iyi ortaya konacaktır: İngiltere'ye olan ve hâlen £570,000,000 tutan savaş borcu için İtalya 62 yıl boyunca toplam £272,000,000, yani söz konusu borcunun %47.72'sini ödeyecektir. Oysa Yunanistan'ın savaş borcu için bizden 62 yıllık taksitle toplam £36,650,000 ödememiz istenmektedir. Bu borç Hazinenin verdiği rakamlara göre yuvarlak olarak £230,000,000, bizim iddiamıza göre ise 1918 savaş malzemesi düşüldükten sonra yalnızca £10,825,025 tutmaktadır. İstenen miktar, borcumuzun şimdiki tutarının Hazinenin rakamlarına göre %177'sine, bizimkilere göre ise %336'sına denk gelmektedir. Başka bir deyişle, orantılı olarak İtalya'nın neredeyse dört katı veya yedi katı kadarıdır. Böyle bir çözüm önerisine varmak için Hazine ilk olarak nüfusumuzu İtalya'nınkiyle karşılaştırarak esas almaktadır. Nüfusumuzun 6,300,000, İtalya'nınkinin 42,000,000 olmasına dayanan bu esasa göre, Yunanistan'ın serveti, daha doğrusu milli geliri ve dolayısıyla ödeme kapasitesi İtalya'nınkine 2 - 15 oranındadır. Böyle bir esas, ilk bakışta görüldüğü üzere, tamamen temelsizdir. Bu iddianın temelsizliği şu husus hatırlandığında daha da açık hale gelmektedir: yenilgimiz sonucunda nüfusumuz 1,800,000 mülteci ile arttığı için, bu esasa göre savaştan galip çıkmış olsaydık ödeyeceğimizden çok daha fazlasını ödemeye mecbur edileceğiz. İkinci olarak Majestelerinin Hazinesi, iki ülkenin ilgili ödeme kapasitelerini bulmak için Yunanistan ve İtalya bütçelerini hesaba katmaktadır. (1925 - 1926 İtalyan Bütçesi gelirleri £169,000,000 (Liret 30,500,000,000) ve -19-

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