SECRET AGREEMENT
• Reparations From Germany I 7.30 r.m.) NEW YORK. July 21. I Mr Churchill, Marshal Stalin and ■ President Roosevelt at Yalta reached a secret agreement requiring - Germany to pay 20,000,000,000 dollars reparations in five years, I Russia to receive 10,003,000,000, Bri- | tain and the United States 4,000,000,000 each, and the remainder to be divided among - minor l German victims in Europe, says I the Washington correspondent of ' the “Herald-Tribune.” Marshal Stalin is reported to j have said in effect, “If you leave ! the situation to me I will get | 30,030,000,000 out of them.” Mr Roosevelt and Mr Churchill de- | murred, presumably after hearing I (‘Xpert advice on the amount Ger--1 many could pay. The British and American leaders also wanted to make the term of the payment 20 ' years. Marshal Stalin got his way on the ter in.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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