The story as I remember it goes like this. Sometime in the early 1920s Britain and France asked for relief from some of their war debt to the USA. An American senator, speaking, I like to think, in the accent of Humphrey Bogart or John Wayne, said “they hired the money, didn’t they?” Quite so; end of story. Well, successive Greek governments over many years have hired an awful lot of money, and, if the latest bail-out deal is approved and goes through, are about to hire a lot…
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