American Business and Foreign Policy: 1920--1933

358 Pages·2014·33.412 MB·English

by  Joan Hoff

American Business
&_ Foreign Policy
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joan Hoff Wilson
American Business
Forei9n Policy
&.._
1920-1933
of
The University Press Kentucky
ISBN: 978-0-8131-5550-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-147855
Copyright© 1971 by The University Press of Kentucky
A statewide cooperative scholarly publishing agency
serving Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky,
Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky State College,
Morehead State University, Murray State University,
University of Kentucky, University of Louisville,
and Western Kentucky University.
Editorial and Sales Offices: Lexington, Kentucky 40506
to Dave,
jar
his loving patience
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Contents
Introduction xi
Chapter One,
General Business Views
& Foreign Policy Trends, 1920 1
Chapter Two,
Disarmament & the Peace Movement,
1920-1933 31
Chapter Three,
American Commercial Policy, 1920-1933 65
Chapter Four,
Hoover & Foreign Loan
Supervision, 1920-1933 101
Chapter Five,
Allied War Debts & German
Reparations, 1920-1933 123
Chapter Six,
Manifestations of the Closed Door,
1920-1933 157
Chapter Seven,
Manifestations of the Open Door,
1920-1933 184
Chapter Eight,
A Glimpse of the Future:
Manchuria, 1931-1933 219
Notes 243
Selected Bibliography 313
Index 331
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Acknowledgments
The research for this book was made possible through grants from
the University of California at Berkeley, Sacramento State Col
lege, and the American Philosophical Society. The latter was of
particular importance because it enabled me to duplicate a num
ber of research notes lost in the fall of 1967.
In the early stages of my work on business and foreign policy
I was aided by critical advice from Armin Rappaport, Lawrence
W. Levine, and Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr. I am especially indebted,
however, to a longtime friend and teacher at the University of
Montana, Jules Karlin, whose extensive comments about the style
and content of the original manuscript went far beyond the
boundaries of friendship and scholarship.
I would also like to extend my appreciation to the staff mem
bers at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, the Roose
velt Library in Hyde Park, the Library of Congress, and the
National Archives, and to those in the manuscript divisions at
Stanford, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale universities. At the Her
bert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, I was
professionally and personally assisted by Archivist Mrs. Fay
Kelly (Martha) Smith in too many ways to enumerate or ade
quately thank, and I am deeply grateful to Senior Archivist
Dwight M. Miller and to all of the library personnel at West
Branch for facilitating my trips there.