Office of the Historian

Status of intergovernmental debts owed the United States by reason of the First World War1

[For summary of intergovernmental debts due December 15, 1936, see Department of State, Press Releases, November 28, 1936, p. 415. For exchanges of correspondence in connection with amounts due the United States under arrangements effected by the World War Foreign Debt Commission, see Press Releases, as follows:

  • Belgium: June 20, 1936, p. 621; December 19, 1936, p. 523.
  • Czechoslovakia: June 20, 1936, p. 618; December 19, 1936, p. 525.
  • Estonia: June 13, 1936, p. 589.
  • Finland: June 13, 1936, p. 583; December 5, 1936, p. 458.
  • France: June 13, 1936, p. 591; December 5, 1936, p. 458; December 19, 1936, p. 512.
  • Greece: April 4, 1936, p. 285.
  • Hungary: June 20, 1936, p. 616; December 19, 1936, p. 514.
  • Italy: June 13, 1936, p. 582; December 19, 1936, p. 516.
  • Latvia: June 13, 1936, p. 593; December 19, 1936, p. 517.
  • Liberia: February 29, 1936, p. 179.
  • Lithuania: June 13, 1936, p. 584; December 19, 1936, p. 519.
  • Poland: June 20, 1936, p. 619; December 19, 1936, p. 521.
  • Rumania: June 13, 1936, p. 586; December 19, 1936, p. 527.
  • United Kingdom (Great Britain): June 13, 1936, p. 580; December 12, 1936, p. 498.
  • Yugoslavia: June 13, 1936, p. 588.

The foregoing Department of State Press Releases, omitting the statements of amounts due, are reprinted in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1936 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1937), p. 288, and ibid., 1937 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1938), p. 271; see also ibid., 1936, p. 77, and ibid., 1937, p. 74.]

  1. For previous correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1935, vol. i, pp. 374 ff; concerning the position of the Department of State with respect to the treatment of foreign war debts, see post, pp. 567 ff.↩