Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I wish to take this occasion also to frankly state my views upon our relations to German reparations and the debts owed to us by the Allied Governments of Europe."

"We are not involved in the discussion of strictly European problems, of which the payment of German reparations is one."

"No, no payments due until the 15th of December."

"But as the basis of the settlement of these debts was the capacity under normal conditions of the debtor to pay, we should be consistent with our own policies and principles if we take into account th..."