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THE DIVISION OF THE RECEIPTS
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at Spa it was settled as
52 per cent.• 22 „. 10 „. 8 „
J of 1 per cent each ;
the remaining 6j per cent being reserved for theSerbo-Croat-Slovene State and for Greece, Kumania,and other Powers not signatories of the Spa Agree-ment. 2
This settlement represented some concession onthe part of Great Britain, whose proportionate claimwas greatly increased by the inclusion of pensionsbeyond what it would have been on the basis ofSeparation proper; and the proportion claimed byMr. Lloyd George in Paris was probably nearer thetruth (namely, that the French and British sharesshould be in the proportion 5 to 3). I estimate thatFrance 45 per cent, British Empire 33 per cent, Italy 10 per cent, Belgium 6 per cent, and the rest 6 per
1 At the conference of Dominion Prime Ministers in July 1921 thisshare was further divided as follows between the constituent portions ofthe Empire :
United Kingdom . . 86-85 New Zealand . . . 1-75Minor colonies . . - 80 South Africa ... -60Canada .... 4 - 35 Newfoundland . . - 10Australia . . . 4'35 India .... 1-20
2 The Spa Agreement also made provision that half the receipts fromBulgaria and from the constituent parts of the former Austro-HungarianEmpire should be divided in the above proportions, and that, of the otherhalf, 40 per cent should go to Italy and 60 per cent to Greece, Rumania ,and Jugo-Slavia.
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