[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues/WW1 Debt
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:47:11 -0700
On Oct 1, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Ursula Stange wrote:
> 'All students are required to bring three coloured markers to their first
> class.'
>
Yes, that would be my vote too.
And now another sentence: "All Germans have paid off their First World War
debt."
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/germany-finally-pays-off-wwi-debt-20100930-15ydu.html
'strawdinry! Reparations were repudiated by Hitler. Then came the argument,
"Well, we're not one country any more and therefore not the same entity that
incurred the debt." Apparently when Germany was once again unified, they
started once again paying off the First World War. No "statute of
limitations...it wasn't a good idea in the first place...bankruptcy dissolved
all obligation..." argument, just hand into the pocket and over the doubloons
go.
To whom, one wonders? Italy? Did Italy get its fair share?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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