[PAR35]

If it is to be sent in “dribbles” that clearly means that (1) the English have used it for collateral for other loans or (2) that they don’t have all of it.

It's the Americans that the Germans don't trust, not the British.

[Moltke]

Or maybe they don’t want to pay the storage fees anymore. Got to be a few mills/year.

If you were to store something valuable at a friend’s house -for a fee- because you were threatened by the neighborhood bully, and the threat went away one day, wouldn’t you want your valuables back? Doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t trust your friend anymore...