2 payment for harm, loss, or damage that has been caused to a person or an organization, or the fact of making such a payment: --
Has this anything to do with the reparations claim?
From 1929 to 1933 we were wrangling with them over the liquidation of the last war—reparations and disarmament.
You can do it on a profit-making basis and perhaps obtain a little on account of reparations by that means.
The present position is that the assets in this country are not enough to meet the reparations.
Is there no technical hitch which can make it difficult to deliver the rest of these reparations and plants?
When a matter of pressing for international justice is concerned, it is no use having reparations of the old-fashioned kind.
Then crushing reparations, as a solution, hurts the victors as well as the vanquished.
The trouble is due to the fact not that you are exacting reparations, but that there is something to repair.
