War Claims Commission: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4044, an Act to Amend the Trading with the Enemy Act, as Amended; to Create a Commission to Make an Inquiry and Report with Respect to War Claims, and to Provide for Relief for Internees in Certain Cases, February 17, 19, March 9, and May 11, 1948Considers legislation to authorize the Federal Government to withhold West German and Japanese assets and to establish the War Claims Commission to study WWI and WWII war claims. |
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Page 4 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 24 - Cong.) of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States of which the Hon.
Page 131 - Secretary shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable to such State under this section.
Page 149 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Page 1 - January 1, 1947, was subject to vesting or seizure under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 411...
Page 47 - Germany undertakes to compensate her nationals in respect of the sale or retention of their property, rights or interests in Allied or Associated States.
Page 54 - Powers reserve the right to retain and liquidate all property, rights and interests belonging at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty to German nationals, or companies controlled by them, within their territories, colonies, possessions and protectorates, including territories ceded to them by the present Treaty.
Page 131 - ... shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claims of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Page 92 - ... (2) Damage caused by Germany or her allies to civilian victims of acts of cruelty, violence or maltreatment (including injuries to life or health as a consequence of imprisonment, deportation, internment or evacuation, of exposure at sea or of being forced to labour), wherever arising, and to the surviving dependents of such victims.
Page 21 - Hearings are now being held by the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the House of ^Representatives...