text:  Is it we ask just that the Greeks should be compelled to pay sums expended on decorations to European statesmen pensions to Bavarian ministers staff appointments to French engineer officers and ambassadors at foreign courts when they never were allowed even to express their conviction of the folly of these measures except by the public press? The truth is that the loan was wasted and the amount now to be repaid by Greece was very considerably increased by the allied powers themselves who neglected to enforce the provisions of the very treaty they now call upon the Greeks to execute though not a party to it