Return of Confiscated Property: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 411 [and Others] April 4, 5, and 6, 1957Considers legislation on return of confiscated property, payment of American war damage claims, and use of interest from the investment of funds obtained under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act for scientific scholarships and fellowships for children of veterans. |
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84th Congress administration agency thereof agreement Alien Property Custodian Allied amended Aniline & Film Attorney authorized award bill Bonn Convention Chairman claimant Claims Act Commission committee compensation confiscation Congress corporation court damage Department of Justice designee Enemy Act enemy property Exhibit Federal Republic filed foreign government foreign principal named former enemy former owners funds German assets German property hearings Hugo Stinnes Corp I. G. Farben individual Interhandel international law Japan legislation loss MARTIN WOOD matter ment million named under item nationals natural person Office of Alien organization payment percent President private property proceeds proposed purpose pursuant question record Registrant Registrant's respect return of vested seized Senator DIRKSEN Senator JOHNSTON Senator O'MAHONEY Senator SMATHERS Soviet statement subcommittee Swiss Switzerland tion TOWNSEND Trading Treasury treaty United States Senate vested assets vested property veterans Washington Accord World World War II
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Page 36 - That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced into practice, will more or less affect the exercise of this right, but cannot impair the right itself.
Page 362 - ... foreign country or any national thereof has or has had any interest, or as may be otherwise necessary to enforce the provisions of this...
Page 65 - Now, what is ordinary, though there must always be a strain of constancy within it, is none the less a variable affected by time and place and circumstance. Ordinary in this context does not mean that the payments must be habitual or normal in the sense that the same taxpayer will have to make them often. A lawsuit affecting the safety of a business may happen once in a lifetime. The counsel fees may be so heavy that repetition is unlikely.
Page 8 - (2) A woman who, at the time of her marriage, was a subject or citizen of a nation which has remained neutral in the war, or of a nation which was associated with the United States in the prosecution of said war, and who. prior to April 6, 1917, intermarried with a subject or citizen of Germany or Austria-Hungary...
Page 363 - Court of the District of Columbia or in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business (to which suit the Alien Property Custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall be made a party defendant), to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed, and if...
Page 368 - States' means (A) a natural person who is a citizen of the United States, or who owes permanent allegiance to the United States, and (B) a corporation or other legal entity which is organized under the laws of the United States...
Page 561 - The Federal Republic shall in the future raise no objections against the measures which have been, or will be, carried out with regard to German external assets or other property, seized for the purpose of reparation or restitution, or as a result of the state of war, or on the basis of agreements concluded, or to be concluded, by the Three Powers with other Allied countries, neutral countries or former allies of Germany.
Page 58 - That the Chief- Justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court assigned to each circuit, and the circuit judges within each circuit, and the several district judges within each circuit, shall be competent to sit as judges of the circuit court of appeals within their respective circuits in the manner hereinafter provided.
Page 452 - We think, therefore, that treaties stipulating for permanent rights and general arrangements, and professing to aim at perpetuity, and to deal with the case of war as well as of peace, do not cease on the occurrence of war, but are, at most, only suspended while it lasts ; and unless they are waived by the parties, or new and repugnant stipulations are made, they revive in their operation at the return of peace.
Page 76 - An Act to punish persons who make threats against the President of the United States", approved February 14, 1917; section 871 of title 18, United States Code; an Act entitled "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes...