The reparations payments fall far short of the $360 million requested by the commission.

How would one even begin to arrive at a sum for the reparation payments?

Together with reparation payments, this totaled over 20% of the budget.

A commentator recently said it was as if Japan were being asked to make reparations payments 45 years after its war defeat.

The reparation payments, which came in eight installments of $50 million each, were finally completed last week.

When these debts suddenly came due it was as if years of reparations payments were compressed into a few short weeks.

And reparation payments, if Parliament authorizes them, could be years away.

In the early years after the war, many survivors spurned reparation payments as "blood money."

German business began to rebound during the mid-1920s and it made prompt reparation payments.

We accept your offer of reparation payment of one hundred million dollars.