The Johnson Debt Default Act, passed by Congress in 1934, prohibited governments in default of their World War I debts to the U.S. from further borrowing in American markets. Only Finland had not defaulted. Some argued that the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, which put strictures on foreign trade, made it impossible for these nations to repay their debts.
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