Rather, it was the vivid depiction of the 1932 Bonus March in Washington, DC, during which General Douglas MacArthur deliberately continued an attack on unarmed, unemployed War War I veterans and their families, who were camped in DC to call attention to the failure of the US to provide promised post-war payments.
For health workers that did remain in Liberia during the war, salary payments stopped and food became payment for work.
He first served as chancellor from November 1923 until December 1924, during which time his government secured the acceptance of the Dawes Plan for war reparations payments.
That prompted Silicon Valley publication Pando Daily to question whether "winning the hearts of Valley startups" was enough to win the war over payments.
Shortly after the election, Hoover received a joint Anglo-French request for a postponement of the first world war debt payments that were scheduled to fall due on December 15.
Some civic duties were paid, including military service, attending the assembly, and being selected as a juror — but except in times of war, these payments would not support a family year round.
Operating without floating currencies or a lender of last resort, its present predicament carries painful echoes of the gold-standard world of the early 1930s.In the mid-1920s, anter an initially untenable schedule of war reparations payments was revised, French and American creditors struck by the possibility of rapid growth in the battered German economy began to pile in.
The move by key figures from two parties that are Ms Merkel's junior coalition partners broke a 25-year taboo on a subject that Berlin has consistently maintained is "closed" – and followed repeated demands by the new Greek government for war compensation payments to help offset its deepening national debt.
Even assuming that the 525,000 American troops who have so far served in Iraq and Afghanistan will require treatment only on the same scale as their predecessors from the gulf war, these payments are likely to run at $7 billion a year for the next 45 years.
