Congress later authorized reparations, but only after many of the internees were long dead.
In 1986, Marks wrote that the German foreign office, supported by military and civilian notables, "focused on Article 231 ... hoping that, if one could refute German responsibility for the war, not only reparations but the entire treaty would collapse".
Reparation can only occur after some losses or damage due to a prior wrongdoing.
This reasoning suggests how Locke can say both that residence in a state is tacit consent to its actions and that the lawful conqueror has rights to reparation from only those who "assisted, concurred, or consented", to their state's unjust wars against him.
That problem aside, Fullinwider and Bittker give no argument to support their view that the freed peoples' descendants would have recovered from the harms of slavery without the help of reparation if only government had protected their civil and political rights.
After the whole controversy about the Native American history, you said that you're open to the idea of reparations not only for African-Americans from slavery but reparations for Native Americans.
Here, we found that administration of NaHS not only maintained the integrity of the blood brain barrier (BBB), protected neurons from apoptosis, and promoted remyelination and axonal reparation but also protected mitochondrial function.
The Japanese government's refusal to apologise and make reparations will only poison relations with its Asian neighbours.
Of course, weighted-vote reparations are only slightly more politically feasible than a multi-trillion-dollar payout.
His comments on war reparations came only days after Greece's deputy prime minister, Theodoros Pangalos, suggested that Germany had an obligation to bail out Greece because of its occupation of the country during the second world war.
