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PUBLIC LAW 744-AUG. 31, 1954

"(b) The Commission is authorized to receive and determine, according to law, the amount and validity, and provide for the payment of any claim for detention benefits filed by or on behalf of any merchant seaman who, being then a merchant seaman, was captured or interned or held by the Government of Germany or the Imperial Japanese Government, its agents or instrumentalities in World War II for any period of time subsequent to December 7, 1941, during which he was held by either such government as a prisoner, internee, hostage, or in any other capacity. Detention benefits shall be paid under this section at the rates prescribed and in the manner provided in subsections (c) and (d) of section 5 of this Act. "(c) Payment of any claim filed under this section shall not be made to any merchant seaman, or to any survivor or survivors thereof, who, voluntarily, knowingly, and without duress, gave aid to or collaborated with or in any manner served any government hostile to the United States during World War II. " (d) Claims for benefits under this section must be filed within one year after the date of enactment of this section. "(e) Any claim allowed under the provisions of this section shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment out of the War Claims Fund established by section 13 of this Act. "SEC. 17. (a)(1) The Commission is authorized to receive and to determine, according to law, the amount and validity, and provide for the payment of any claim filed by— " (A) any individual who— " (i) on or after December 7, 1941, was a member of the military or naval forces of the United States; "(ii) is the survivor of any deceased individual described in subparagraph (i); "(iii) was a national of the United States on December 7, 1941, and is a national of the United States on the date of enactment of this section; or "(iv) is the survivor of any deceased individual who was a national of the United States on December 7, 1941, and Mould be a national of the United States on the date of enactment of this section if living; or " (B) any partnership, firm, corporation, or other legal entity, in which more than 50 per centum of the ownership was vested, directly or indirectly, both on December 7, 1941, and on the date of enactment of this section, in individuals referred to in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph; for losses arising as a result of the sequestration of accounts, deposits, or other credits of such individual or legal entity in the Philippines by the Imperial Japanese Government. "(2) The Commission is authorized to receive and to determine, according to law, the amount and validity, and provide for the payment of any claim filed by any bank or other financial institution doing business in the Philippines which reestablished sequestered accounts, deposits, or other credits of— " (A) any individual referred to in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of this subsection; or " (B) any partnership, firm, corporation, or other legal entity, in which more than 50 per centum of the ownership was vested, directly or indirectly, both on December 7, 1941, and on the date of restablishment of such sequestered credits, in individuals referred to in such subparagraph (A); for reimbursement of the amounts of such sequestered credits paid by such bank or financial institution.

souse 2004.

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50 USC app. 2012. Philippines. L o s s e s from sequestered c r e d its.

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