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FDR: “The indebtedness to our Government has no relation whatsoever to reparations payments made or owed to them.”

On the recordMay 31, 1934
The indebtedness to our Government has no relation whatsoever to reparations payments made or owed to them.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on the Payment of War Debts

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