Foreign Assistance: No, Thanks
am 01.09.2005 von German American Law Journal :: American Edition
CK - Washington. Information pours in that the United States declines offers of flood assistance from foreign countries.
On the radio, listeners complain that foreign countries show no interest in assisting. Gradually, some radio stations broadcast corrections to that view.
By tonight, it seems clear that such offers meet resistance. Under NATO/SOFA, GIs from American military bases were free to act in Germany, and they assisted regularly and generously in German floods and other catastrophes. Germany is one of the countries that has offered the United States disaster relief, such as from its Technical Relief Agency, THW. Naturally, Germany is not in the same position as the United States …
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