Invoking the principle laid down by Mr. Wilson and clearly formulated by Mr. Lansing, they insisted that reparations should be claimed only for damage done to civilians directly and lawlessly.
The Austrians desired exemption from the obligation to make reparations and pay crushing taxes, and one of the delegates, with a leaning for that country, was not averse to the idea.
For example, a clause of the Treaty with Germany dealing with reparations was altered to Italy's detriment.
Her financial obligations were first transferred[333] to the Allies and then magnanimously wiped out by these, who then limited all her liabilities for reparations to two and a quarter milliard francs.
Henry, one thousand marks were granted by a common council towards the works of this conduit, and the reparations of other: this is called the little conduit in West Cheape by Paule's gate.
This year a subsidy was granted, for the reparationsof London bridge.
Without being bounden to reparations or other charge.
As also the store of timber for the necessary reparations of the tenements belonging to the chamber of the said city, there commonly hath been kept.
But where the most extreme views clashed was in the matter of reparations and the indemnity to be claimed from the enemy.
So was invented the Reparations Commission machine, a thing which has no precedent in any treaty, being a commission with sovereign powers to control the life of the whole of Germany.
Payment of thereparations as established by the treaty or treaties or supplementary conventions.
Germany will issue one hundred milliards of gold marks of bearer bonds, and afterwards all such issues as the Reparations Commission shall demand, until the amount of the debt be reached in order to permit the stabilization of credit.
On May 1 theReparations Commission will fix the total amount of the German debt.
Material reparations are not enough, there must be moral reparations too, and the conception of France cannot be the same as that of her Allies.
Hence a special commission was required, and the Reparations Commission appears on the scene to decide the sum to demand from Germany and to control its payment.
The suppression of the Reparations Commission becomes, therefore, a fundamental necessity.
No financier seriously believes that the issue of bonds authorized by the treaty for the credit of the Reparations Commission has now any probability of success.
That the Reparations Commission be abolished and its powers be conferred upon the League of Nations itself.
They also decided that Italy could not expect to share in German reparations if her delegates were not present to sign the German treaty.
If the British and French would consent to a definite and moderate sum of reparations (a consent which he knew was out of the question) he would gladly agree.
If a Reparations Commission, the decisions of which Germany must agree to accept, should be satisfied that more yet could be paid, a third issue of bonds, amounting to a further ten billions might be exacted.
Footnote 14: The proposal of a permanent commission for handling the whole matter of reparations was made first by an American financial adviser, John Foster Dulles.
Even this total of twenty-five billions was not to be regarded as final, if Germany's capacity to pay more were determined by the Reparations Commission.
The Reparations Commission, however, was given the power to recommend abatements as well as increased payments; upon the wisdom of its members the practical application of the treaty would obviously depend.
In the matter of German reparations the question of justice was not the point at issue; the damage committed by Germany surpassed in value anything that the Allies could exact from her.
The Allies on the other hand would not make peace with an unbeaten Germany, which evidently persisted in the hope of dominating weaker nationalities and said no word of reparationsfor the acknowledged wrongs committed.
In truth the reparations clauses of the treaty, which compelled Germany to hand over what was practically a blank check to the Allies, represented no victory for Wilson.
In comparison with this success, he doubtless regarded his concessions in the matter of reparations and the special Franco-British-American alliance as mere details.
He had by no means had his way in the matter of reparations or frontiers, but he had gone far towards a vindication of his principles by avoiding a defeat under circumstances where the odds were against him.
In my opinion the International Loan on a great scale is just as big an illusion as Reparations on a great scale.
In this question of Reparations the position changes so fast that it may be worth while for me to remind you just how the question stands at this moment.
Mr. Lloyd George's part in the matter of Reparations is the most discreditable episode in his career.
The original Commission on Reparations was divided into three sub-commissions.
Sub-commission Number Two on reparations had for its object to determine what Germany's capacity to pay was, and what the proper method of payment should be.
From the first the American delegates and experts were in favor of fixing definitely the amount that Germany was to pay in the way of reparations and settling this question once for all.
In view of the promises of Clemenceau and Lloyd George that Germany should pay the cost of the war, the question of reparations was an exceedingly difficult one to adjust.
No economic settlement had as yet been agreed upon, and the question of reparations was threatening the disruption of the Conference.
They, therefore, insisted that the question should be left open to be determined later by a Reparations Commission.
Briand in his awkward position, and agreed to a demand for reparations on a scale which was obviously fantastic.
Rate of the husbandmen and artificers yearly to be paid on St. Stephen's Day, to the churchwardens, towards the reparations of the church, and other public charges of the town.
Between nations closely connected by the most powerful motives of friendship and interest, even the most lawful reparations ought always to stop short of revenge.
Germany was compelled to accept full responsibility for all damages; to pay five billion dollars in cash and goods, and to make certain other payments which might be ordered from time to time by an inter-allied reparations commission.
When asked forreparations the Grand Master threw the blame on an evil one-eyed Knight named Gautier de Maisnil.
The Soviet Union extracted no reparations from Bulgaria, despite the fact that reparations were demanded from Germany, Hungary, and Romania.
Bulgaria was forced to pay both reparations and payments for the allied occupation that followed.
It did not appoint a member of the Reparations Commission--the Senate's reservation to Mr. Hughes's treaty keeping that question in the control of Congress.
Mr. Morgan going abroad to consider reparations may accomplish the wonders which mere statesmen can not.
Upon the initiative of this Government a year's postponement of reparations and other intergovernmental debts was brought about.
The United States denied itself any participation in the war settlement of general reparations and our claims are comparatively small in amount.
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