Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1931, Volume I

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Efforts of the United States to prevent financial collapse in Europe: (Documents 1-267)
- I. Proposal by President Hoover for a moratorium on intergovernmental debts (Documents 1-30)
- II. Negotiations to secure acceptance by France of the moratorium proposal (Documents 31-103)
- III. The London Conference of Experts, July 17–August 11, 1931 (Documents 104-116)
- IV. Attitude of interested governments toward the moratorium proposal: (Documents 117-203)
  - Austria (Document 117)
  - Belgium (Documents 118-136)
  - Bulgaria (Documents 137-148)
  - Czechoslovakia (Documents 149-151)
  - Egypt (Document 152)
  - Finland (Documents 153-155)
  - France.
  - Great Britain, the British Dominions and India (Documents 156-157)
  - Greece (Documents 158-169)
  - Hungary (Documents 170-171)
  - Italy (Documents 172-179)
  - Japan (Document 180)
  - Lithuania (Document 181)
  - Latvia and Estonia (Documents 182-184)
  - Poland (Document 185)
  - Portugal (Documents 186-191)
  - Rumania (Document 192)
  - Yugoslavia (Documents 193-203)
- V. Congressional approval of the moratorium (Documents 204-209)
- VI. Participation of the United States in efforts to halt the withdrawals of short-term credits from Germany (Documents 210-249)
- VII. Meeting of the Young Plan Advisory Committee, Basel, December 8–23, 1931 (Documents 250-267)
Negotiations looking toward a solution of the problem of French and Italian naval construction52 (Documents 268-322)
The armaments truce of November 1, 1931 (Documents 323-358)
Preparations for the General Disarmament Conference78 (Documents 359-401)
Visit of the Secretary of State to Europe47 (Documents 402-417)
Interest of the United States in the proposed Austro-German Customs Union (Documents 418-447)
Attendance of an unofficial American observer at meetings of the Conference of Ambassadors (Documents 448-450)
Tension arising from German-Polish relations with respect to the Polish Corridor, Danzig, and East Prussia (Documents 451-460)
Refusal by the United States of invitation by the League of Nations to participate in a special committee to study a pact of economic non-aggression (Documents 461-462)
Proposals for an international conference on the stabilization of s silver39 (Documents 463-495)
Participation of the United States in the Conference of Wheat Exporting Countries, London, May 18–23, 1931 (Documents 496-507)
Convention between the United States and other powers for limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs, concluded at Geneva, July 13, 193170 (Documents 508-537)
Conference on the Suppression of Opium Smoking, held at Bangkok, Siam, November 9–27, 193120 (Documents 538-545)
Refusal of the United States to adhere to the convention of September 30, 1921, on traffic in women and children (Documents 546-547)
Cooperation of the United States with several other governments in reconnaissance surveys for an Inter-American Highway43a (Documents 548-556)
The Chaco Dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay45a (Documents 557-637)
Boundary disputes: (Documents 638-669)
- Dominican Republic and Haiti3 (Documents 638-649)
- Honduras and Nicaragua14a (Documents 650-669)
Representations by foreign governments with respect to Senate bill relating to payment of advance wages to seamen on foreign vessels16c (Documents 670-672)
Representations by foreign governments regarding Senate bills for the deportation of certain alien seamen26 (Documents 673-678)
Immunity of foreign states from suits in Federal and State courts; representation of the United States before foreign courts (Documents 679-680)
Diplomatic immunity of a foreign commercial attaché in the United States (Documents 681-682)

Continued from Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, pp. 132– 186.↩
For previous correspondence concerning the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, see Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. i, pp. 40 ff.; ibid., 1927, vol. i, pp. 159 ff.; ibid., 1928, vol. i, pp. 235 ff.; ibid., 1929, vol. i, pp. 65 ff.; and ibid., 1930, vol. i, pp. 187 ff.↩
For other documents of interest in this connection, see “Efforts of the United States to prevent financial collapse in Europe,” pp. 1 ff. (especially section VI, entitled “Participation of the United States in efforts to halt the withdrawals of short-term credits from Germany,” pp. 250 ff.); and “Preparations for the General Disarmament Conference,” pp. 471 ff.↩
For previous correspondence on this subject, see Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. ii, pp. 639 ff.↩
See also Department of State Conference Series No. 10, Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs, Geneva, May 27–July 18, 1981: Report of the Delegation of the United States to the Secretary of State (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1932).↩
For minutes of the meetings and documents submitted to the Conference, see League of Nations, Conference on the Suppression of Opium-Smoking, Convened Under Article XII of the Geneva Opium Agreement, 1925, Bangkok, November 9th to 27th, 1981 (C.577.M.284.1932.XL, Geneva, August 1932).↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, pp. 279– 296.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, pp. 309– 344.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. i, pp. 943– 946.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, pp. 361– 377.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. i, pp. 1005– 1009.

The representations were transmitted by the Department to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce. For representations by Germany, see memorandum of March 3, 1931, from the German Embassy, p. 818.
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Continued from Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, pp. 252– 255.↩

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