Herbert Hoover actually said...

No part of the debt owing to us has been cancelled or reduced; the postponed amounts are repayable over a period of about 10 years with interest at 4 percent.

Context

Statement on Signing the Foreign Debt Moratorium Resolution.

12/22/1931

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