The Reparation Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9776319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M J Bonn |
| Year | 1922 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-156 |
| Publication date | 1922-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622210400105 |
| OpenAlex | W2317377047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
vinced the German people that the declarations of the Allies concerning the sanctity of treaties were nothing but sanctimonious piffle which could easily be explained away by clever lawyers' quibbles. The consent of President Wilson, against the wellreasoned arguments of his financial advisers, to the inclusion of war-pensions in the compensation bill, changed the demand for reparation into one of partial indemnity. It knocked, so to speak, the moral bottom out of the whole problem. The rebuilding of the devastated areas in France and Belgium could easily have been conceived by the new Germany as a sacred moral obligation; the inclusion of pensions was considered a piece of mere financial extortion, brought about by a callous disregard for the solemn obligations on which the armistice was based. In this con
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 1991 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |