Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.THE CABINET: Ledger Items
Civil servants in the highly organized Treasury Department entered in the national ledger, all on the same day last week, the following installment payments of War-debt interest and principal:
Great Britain .................................... $92,575,000.00* Belgium ................................................ 1,125,000.00 Hungary ................................................ 39,724.53 Lithuania ................................................ 47,896.35 Poland ....................................................1,000,000.00 Czechoslavakia ........... 1,500,000.00 Estonia.............................75,000.00 Finland.............................182,220.00
*Britain paid in U. S. Treasury notes, which were forthwith cancelled, thereby reducing the U. S. debt by $92,575,000.
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