Report on Greece"s war debt to England.
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thereof up to April 1933,a sum which starting in 1923 from
5,000,000 gold francs annually.rises up to April 1933 to
10,000,000 gold francs per annum and only thenceforward
is raised to 43,395,326 gold francs.
Whereas Greece pays for the refugee loan as from
1925 an annual sum of £950,000 and will have to pay for the
service of the supplementary refugee loan from next year
onwards an annual sum which, added to the service of the
already concluded refugee loan will be about equal to
what Bulgaria will have to pay only after April 1st, 1933.
To this remark of mine Sir Otto objected that
whereas Bulgaria pays these sums abroad without having
any advantage in return, we have the advantage that by
means of the loan our refugees will one day become a
productive element - However I cannot very well see the
point of this argument. The refugee loan was raised by
us for the purpose of establishing the refugees and relieving
the Treasury from the burden of their upkeep and freeing the
State from the social and political dangers which would
exist while this question remained unsolved. On the other
hand with the assistance granted to the refugees, a whole
generation will hardly suffice for these to recover the
standard of life which was theirs before they were compelled
to flee from their homes as a result of the disastrous issue
of the war.
Contrary to this Bulgaria never sustained such a
catastrophe as a result of the war as to have to heal so
serious a wound. Of course she too has a refugee problem
but the number of her refugees does not reach 1/10th of the
refugees in Greece: Nevertheless both Greece and Bulgaria
will have to export about the same amount of gold, the
letter for reparations and the former on account of the loan
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- handwritten_note If the refugee loan had been concluded simply for the purpose of developing the productive powers of the country, the argument would hold good. But this loan was left
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- ⟦The refugee loan was raised by us for the purpose of establishing the refugees and relieving the Treasury from the burden of their upkeep and freeing the State from the social and political dangers which would exist while this question remained unsolved. On the other hand with the assistance granted to the refugees, a whole generation will hardly suffice for these to recover the standard of life which was theirs before they were compelled to flee from their homes as a result of the disastrous issue of the war. Contrary to this Bulgaria never sustained such a catastrophe as a result of the war as to have to heal so serious a wound. Of course she too has a refugee problem but the number of her refugees does not reach 1/10th of the refugees in Greece: Nevertheless both Greece and Bulgaria will have to export about the same amount of gold, the letter for reparations and the former on account of the loan -8-⟧ The text is difficult to read due to the quality of the scan and the typewriter font. The uncertainty is in the exact words and punctuation, especially in the middle of the paragraph. The last sentence is particularly hard to decipher.
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Nisan 1933'e kadar, 1923'te yıllık 5,000,000 altın frankla başlayıp Nisan 1933'e kadar yıllık 10,000,000 altın franka yükselen, ancak ondan sonra 43,395,326 altın franka çıkan bir meblağ ödeyecektir.
Oysa Yunanistan mülteci istikrazı için 1925'ten itibaren yıllık £950,000 ödemektedir. Gelecek yıldan itibaren de ek mülteci istikrazının servisi için yıllık bir meblağ ödemek zorunda kalacaktır. Bu meblağ, halihazırda akdedilmiş mülteci istikrazının servisine eklendiğinde, Bulgaristan'ın ancak 1 Nisan 1933'ten sonra ödeyeceği miktara aşağı yukarı eşit olacaktır.
Benim bu tespitime Sir Otto, Bulgaristan'ın bu meblağları karşılığında hiçbir fayda elde etmeksizin yurt dışına ödediğini, bizim ise istikraz sayesinde mültecilerimizin bir gün üretken bir unsur haline gelmesi gibi bir faydamız bulunduğunu ileri sürerek itiraz etti. Ancak bu argümanın neye dayandığını pek anlayamıyorum. Mülteci istikrazı, mültecileri iskân etmek, Hazineyi onların geçimini sağlama yükünden kurtarmak ve Devleti, bu mesele çözümsüz kaldığı sürece var olacak toplumsal ve siyasi tehlikelerden kurtarmak amacıyla tarafımızdan akdedilmiştir. Öte yandan mültecilere verilen yardımla bile, bunların savaşın felaketle sonuçlanması yüzünden yurtlarından kaçmak zorunda kalmadan önceki hayat seviyelerine yeniden kavuşmalarına bir nesil bile güçlükle yetecektir.
Buna karşılık Bulgaristan, savaşın sonucunda böylesine ağır bir yarayı sarmak zorunda kalacak bir felakete hiçbir zaman uğramamıştır. Elbette onun da bir mülteci meselesi vardır. Fakat mültecilerinin sayısı Yunanistan'daki mültecilerin 1/10'una bile ulaşmamaktadır. Buna rağmen hem Yunanistan hem de Bulgaristan aşağı yukarı aynı miktarda altını yurt dışına çıkarmak zorunda kalacaktır: ikincisi tamirat için, birincisi ise istikraz hesabına.
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