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 Bulletin, as follows:

  • Belgium: June 15, 1940, page 654; December 21, 1940, page 566.
  • Estonia: June 15, 1940, page 655.
  • Finland: June 15, 1940, page 651; December 7, 1940, page 501.
  • France: June 15, 1940, page 648; December 21, 1940, page 567.
  • Hungary: June 15, 1940, page 652; December 21, 1940, page 569.
  • Italy: June 15, 1940, page 650; December 21, 1940, page 570.
  • Latvia: June 15, 1940, page 655.
  • Lithuania: June 15, 1940, page 656.
  • Poland: June 15, 1940, page 657; December 21, 1940, page 571.
  • Rumania: June 15, 1940, page 658; December 21, 1940, page 572.
  • United Kingdom (Great Britain): June 15, 1940, page 649; December 21, 1940, page 568.
  • Yugoslavia: June 15, 1940, page 651; December 21, 1940, page 572.

In view of governmental conditions in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, no statements of sums due and payable December 15, 1940, were rendered to those countries. The amount scheduled to be paid by Finland December 15, 1940, was postponed under the option of postponement extended to Finland by Public Resolution No. 84, 76th Congress, approved June 15, 1940 (54 Stat. 398).]

  1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. ii, p. 51.↩