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

—  Gustav Stresemann

Article for Zeit (20 April 1924), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 348
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