Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 6: May, 1924 But the United States is playing fair. The Mixed Claims Commission, which is handling the claims and counterclaims made by the two countries on behalf of their nationals, may - perhaps - cut the total of approved American claims down to a quarter of a billion dollars. This is about one-seventh of the sums originally claimed, but the cut is pos sible, for all that. Claimants against a government always boost their de mands on the time-honored and well sustained theory that the total will be cut anyhow. Then the government does not always pay right on the dot. It still owes for some of the cotton destroyed during the Civil War. Lawyers often work on a contingent fee, too. The more they ask for the more they get. Sometimes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.