Office of the Historian

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

[For exchanges of correspondence in connection with amounts due the United States under arrangements effected by the World War Foreign Debt Commission, see Department of State, Press Releases, as follows:

  • Austria: April 9, 1938, page 465; June 18, 1938, page 694; December 3, 1938, page 375. (See also Foreign Relations, 1938, volume II, pages 483 ff.)
  • Belgium: June 18, 1938, page 681; December 17, 1938, page 453.
  • Czechoslovakia: June 18, 1938, page 687; December 17, 1938, page 454.
  • Estonia: June 4, 1938, page 648; December 10, 1938, page 417.
  • Finland: June 4, 1938, page 649; December 3, 1938, page 402.
  • France: June 18, 1938, page 689; December 17, 1938, page 459.
  • Hungary: April 2, 1938, page 423; June 18, 1938, page 691; December 17, 1938, page 455.
  • Italy: June 11, 1938, page 668; December 17, 1938, page 460.
  • Latvia: June 18, 1938, page 685; December 17, 1938, page 456.
  • Lithuania: June 11, 1938, page 670; December 17, 1938, page 457.
  • Poland: June 18, 1938, page 692; December 17, 1938, page 451.
  • Rumania: June 18, 1938, page 680; December 17, 1938, page 458.
  • United Kingdom (Great Britain): June 18, 1938, page 683; December 17, 1938, page 452.
  • Yugoslavia: June 11, 1938, page 672; December 17, 1938, page 459.

Certain portions of the above Intergovernmental correspondence are also printed in the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1938), pages 285 ff., and ibid., 1939, pages 287 ff.; see also ibid., 1938, page 78 and 1939, page 68, “Obligations of Foreign Governments.”]

  1. For previous correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1937, vol. i, pp. 846 ff.↩