Similarly, European citizens should have demanded that their governments refuse even to consider transferring private losses to them. But they failed to do so, and the transfer was effected soon after.
类似地，欧洲公民应该要求他们的政府拒绝把私人损失转移到他们头上，哪怕是做这样考虑都不行。但他们也没有这样做，而转移支付很快就实施了。