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1936 › Alf Landon (Republican) › European war debts and reparations
Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries
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Solution
Reopen negotiations on the roughly $12 billion of defaulted war debts.
Rationale
The debts equal 'one-third of our national debt'; 'no effort has been made by the present administration even to reopen negotiations.'
Statements (1)
We shall use every effort to collect the war debt due us from foreign countries, amounting to $12,000,000--one-third of our national debt. No effort has been made by the present administration even to reopen negotiations.
Follow-through
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Never reopened; the Johnson Act barred loans to defaulters and Lend-Lease (1941) bypassed the issue.
Other positions on this issue
- A twenty-year moratorium on the war debts, writing them off in proportion to each nation's purchases of American goods — Alfred E. Smith, 1932 specific_pledge
- No cancellation of the war debts — make payment possible by restoring trade — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 specific_pledge
- The 1931 German moratorium and standstill agreements stemmed European collapse and will be built upon — Herbert Hoover, 1932 specific_pledge
- No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products — Herbert Hoover, 1932 specific_pledge
- Entry into the World Court and cancellation of the war debts (the record that made him 'politically unpopular') — Newton D. Baker, 1932 directional_stance
- Cancel the war debts (against cancellation of reparations) and raze the tariff wall — Norman Thomas, 1932 specific_pledge
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