n.the return of records of enduring value to their creator or another person or entity deemed to be the rightful custodianTrever 1945b, 219Sargent B. Child, formerly national director of the Historical Records Survey, is now in Europe as archives expert with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Branch of the Reparations, Delivery, and Restitution Division, Allied Control Council for Germany. He will assist in planning and organizing the necessary program for the supervision of archival institutions and for the administration of large masses of modern records taken into protective custody in the American zone of occupation. Sifton 1977, 23Secretary Fish replied to Randolph on November 2, 1869, that the act of August 12, 1848, appeared to him “ambiguous” and also that an examination of the department’s records disclosed nothing “to show Mr. Buchanan ever contemplated the return of any portion of the papers.” Fish closed by saying he had no legal authority to act, and that only Congress could effect such a restitution.Cox 2011, 465The tribunal rejected the argument and held that the Korean manuscripts had in fact become “national treasures” of France notwithstanding their “foreign origin” and that they now constituted inalienable state property of the French government. The tribunal held that it could not force the restitution of the records to South Korea absent an act by the French government to “declassify” them as French property.Montgomery 2012, 367The IMF and Hoover do not contest that the records are Iraqi property, but they obtained the Iraqi delegation’s agreement to involve the State Department in negotiations for their return. As such, the restitution of the documents may have taken a more complicated turn. Presumably, Hoover intends to follow the lead of the State Department in repatriating the majority of the hundred million pages of captured records in the Pentagon’s possession. Ghaddar 2016, 9A historical record, according to the TRC’s chair, Justice Murray Sinclair, is vital for accountability, reconciliation, and to ensure “that future generations of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians will be able to hold to the statement that resonates with all of us: ‘This must never happen again.’” Justice Sinclair here links history and reconciliation, making the oft-noted connection between public truth telling, historical restitution and redress for past injustices that would be at the core of the TRC’s approach to records. ISO 14641, 2018archive restitution: return and transfer of archived documents to their originator, or to a duly appointed person or organization
