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...Eizenstat said he hoped the settlement would spawn “a new kind of foreign policy” in which a greater number of legal tools would be available to victims of political oppression and violence...
Originally charged with obtaining the return of religious artifacts confiscated by the Nazis during World War II, Stuart Eizenstat, the fourth winner of the annual award, ultimately constructed a settlement consisting of compensation for forced labor as well as assets seized by the Nazis and their collaborators...
...Eizenstat recently wrote the book Imperfect Justice about his experiences negotiating the settlement...
...speaks volumes that the U.S. has not intervened - STUART E. EIZENSTAT, Former Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary
...government's own "substantial pecuniary interest" in the case. Behind the scenes, the German Foreign Ministry has been trying to convince the Bush Administration to intervene to dismiss the case, so far to no avail, according to letters to the U.S. State Department obtained by TIME. Significantly, Stuart E. Eizenstat, the former Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary who negotiated the 2000 accord, believes it doesn't cover the Wertheim case. Eizenstat accepts the argument by Principe's lawyers that her family was defrauded after the war's end. "It speaks volumes that the U.S. government has not intervened," Eizenstat tells TIME...