To Amend the Joint Resolution Providing for the Adjudication of Claims of American Nationals Against the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Europe of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on H.J. Res. 49 and H.J. Res. 130, to Amend the Joint Resolution Entitled "Joint Resolution to Provide for the Adjudication by a Commissioner of Claims of American Nationals Against the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," Approved August 4, 1939. March 11, 1954

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 81 pages
Considers resolutions providing for the appointment of a commissioner to determine the validity and amounts of the claims of American nationals against the Soviet government, prior to Nov. 16, 1933, date of the recognition of the Soviet Union by the U.S.

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Page 64 - America and the claims of their nationals, the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will not take any steps to enforce any decisions of costs or initiate any new litigations for the amounts admitted to be due or that may be found to be due it, as the successor of prior Governments of Russia, or otherwise, from American nationals...
Page 4 - ... maintenance, and payment of interest. Upon receipt of each such certificate the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to charge the fund with the amount so certified as repayment of the advances made under subdivision (b), which amount shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Bank Holding Company Act of 1947.
Page 64 - ... not to make any claim with respect to: (a) judgments rendered or that may be rendered by American courts in so far as they relate to property, or rights, or interests therein, in which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or its nationals may have had or may claim to have an interest; or, (b) acts done or settlements made by or with the Government of the United States, or public officials in the United States, or its nationals, relating to property, credits, or obligations of any Government...
Page 2 - Any judgment entered in any court of the United States or of a State of the United States shall be binding upon the Commission in its determination, under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this section, of any issue which was determined by the court in which the judgment was entered.
Page 4 - Within sixty days after the enactment of this title, or within sixty days after the enactment of legislation making appropriations to the Commission for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under...
Page 64 - I am glad to have these undertakings by your Government and I shall be pleased to notify your Government in each case of any amount realized by the Government of the United States from the release and assignment to it of the amounts admitted to be due, or that may be found to be due...
Page 64 - ... the Government of the United States, the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be duly notified in each case of any amount realized by the Government of the United States from such release and assignment.
Page 64 - The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics further agrees, preparatory to the settlement referred to above not to make any claim with respect to: "(a) Judgments rendered or that may be rendered by American courts in so far as they relate to property, or rights, or interests therein, in which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or its nationals may have had or may claim to have an interest; or...
Page 2 - States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise. (i) The Commission may in its discretion enter an award with respect to one or more items deemed to have been clearly established in an individual claim while deferring consideration and action on other items of the same claim. (j) The Commission shall comply with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 except as otherwise specifically provided by this Act.

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