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, volume XX (January 7–June 24, 1939), and Department of State Bulletin, volume I (July 1–December 30, 1939), as follows:

• Austria: January 28, 1939, page 53. (See also this volume, pages 559 ff.)
• Belgium: June 17, 1939, page 520; December 16, 1939, page 694.
• Czechoslovakia: May 20, 1939, page 427; December 9, 1939, page 657.
• Estonia: June 10, 1939, page 504; December 16, 1939, page 689.
• Finland: June 10, 1939, page 505; December 16, 1939, page 689.
• France: June 17, 1939, page 521; December 16, 1939, page 690.
• Hungary: June 17, 1939, page 516; December 16, 1939, page 687; December 23, 1939, page 713.
• Italy: June 17, 1939, page 522; December 16, 1939, page 691.
• Latvia: June 17, 1939, page 519; December 16, 1939, page 692.
• Lithuania: June 10, 1939, page 506; December 9, 1939, page 658.
• Poland: June 17, 1939, page 523; December 16, 1939, page 687.
• Rumania: May 6, 1939, page 382; June 17, 1939, page 518; December 16, 1939, page 693.
• United Kingdom (Great Britain): May 27, 1939, page 453; December 16, 1939, page 695.
• Yugoslavia: June 17, 1939, page 516; December 16, 1939, page 688.

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 Tear Ended June 30, 1939 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1940), pages 288 ff., and ibid., 1940, pages 544 ff.; see also ibid., 1939, pages 68 ff. and ibid., 1940, pages 187 ff., “Obligations of Foreign Governments.”]