Yunanistan'ın İngiltere'ye olan savaş borcuna ilişkin rapor.

credits granted to her in 1918, anxious to raise money to feed his army, asked for the permission to negotiate in the London market a loan of £18,000,000 this permission was granted on the following conditions, by an agreement signed by Sir Robert Harn and Mr. Gounaris, and dated December 22nd 1921, (Annex D.) 1) That the Greek Government would repay the National Bank of Greece from the proceeds of the loan in order that the latter should waive its claim for the payment of the balance of the credits that had been ceded to it and 2) That Greece would definitely take upon herself the obligation of paying the value of the war material supplied to her. Mr. Gounaris found himself in the necessity of accepting these conditions and it is probable that he would have accepted any other conditions, as he only aimed , at that time, at securing the loan of 18 million pounds in the hope that by this he could redress a hopeless situation. Though the permission has been granted, the loan did not materialize as could have been expected, because for the flotation at that time of such a loan it was not sufficient that permission should simply be granted by the British Government. The latter should also have desired this loan and recommended its conclusion to the London market. The British Government moreover had repeatedly declared that so long as King Constantine remained on the throne not a cartridge, not a shilling -6-