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Policy Reports, April 20, 1881. Ref
erence Department.
The author, who studied conditions
In Germany at first hand in 1929
writes of developments in Germany I'M
der the Young plan, of her European
creditors, of the position of the United
States, of reparation payments and OF
the legal and ethical factors involved
Supplementary tables give the income,
expenditure and debt Of Germany In
1929-193l.
The Reparation Settlement, 1880. BY
D. P. Myers world Peace Founda-
ton. Pamphlets. v. IL, No. So
JXAR sW8s. 1929-1s3o. (Circula-
ton Department..
Annual Report of the German Reichs-
bank. Federal Reserve Bulletin
May, 1880. Technology Division)
The report for 1929. interesting in
that it traces the business recession
from 1923.
German Bank Losses From Bourse Col
lapse of 1880 BY r. G. Long. The
Annalist, April 10. 1881. PIP. 677-678
Technology Division)
A review of banking history in Ger
many during the year 1880.
American Underwriting Of German
Securities. U. S. Department OF
Commerce. Trade Information Bull
letin No. 648. 1929. Technology
Division.)
A summary of investments in German
loans under the Dawes plan.
Moratorium Upon War Debts The Ma
tional City Bank of New York
Letter. July, 1881. Technology Di-
vision.)
A discussion Of the financial situation
of the central powers and the hopes
raised by the moratorium.
The Reference Department also has
a collection Of clippings en- the mora
forum.
The Bank for International Settlements.
The Bank for International Settle.
ments. BY Paul Einzig. 1880
HIN Ei69. Technology Division)
1.-The book gives comparatively little
attention to the reparations aspect o,
the scheme. Its chief concern /.
with the problems connected with the
international banking activities of the
Bank for International Settlements
such as the proposed gold clearing sys
tenn, the problem Of a world bank rate,
the possibility of credit imitation. th'
danger of political interference with
the management of the bank, etc"
Constructive Functions Of the Inter.
national Bank. BY Shepard Morgan
Foreign Affairs, July. 1881. PIP. $50
SOL. reference DEPARTMENT.
The history, functions and possibili
ties Of the bank outlined, with particu
lar emphasis on its vital relation to al
countries participating in its organiza'
ton.
New Factor In International Finance
BY George Glasgow. Contemporary
Review, June. 1880 Pp. 779-784
reference Department.
An English view Of the potentialitie!
OF the bank at the time of its institu-
ton. Most business men will bt
affected by what is done in Basel; every
taxpayer will sooner or later feel the
wind. soft or rough as it may be. The
foreign Offices will find in a greater OF
less degree that their policies will b,
influenced by the new force in finance. ;
World Bank BY Gerhard Hirschfeld
Commonweal, April Is, 1881. PIP. 651.
653. reference Department.
THE growth of the Bank for Inter.
national Settlements has been little
short of extraordinary. As the writer
here states, 1t has within a year become
an international clearing house and ar
institution of worldwide prestige"
Preparations Problem and the Bank fol
International Settlements. BY L. T
McFadden. Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Socia
Science, July, 1880. PIP. 1854. (Cir.
culation Department. HC.Am37e.
This Years Expanding Activities of the
B. I. S. in the Finance of Europe
By Leo Pasvolsky. The Annalist
March 81, 1881. PIP. 595-596. (Tech.
nology Division.)
Gives tables of deposits and invest.
ments through February %, 1881.
World Bank at Basel. BY LELAND
1881. PIP. 1874. Difference De-
partment)
A popular account Of the baby bank
OF the Young plan.
American Investments Abroad.
Prosperity and Foreign Investments
BY DR.. Max Winkler. Foreign Pol
icy Association Information Service
May, 1880. Technology Division }
A summary of investments in 1929
with an exposition of the desirability
and benefits of continued investment in
foreign securities.
Handbook on American Underwriting
of Foreign Securities. BY r. A.
Young. U. s. Department of Com
merce. Trade Promotion Series, No
104, 1880. Technology Division)
A survey covering a 16-year-period
and a foreign investment having a net
nominal value of Sill 1884, 100000.
The Balance of International Payments
of the United States n 1880. U. s.
Department of Commerce. Trade
Information Bulletin No. 761, 1881
Technology Division.)
1.-THE 1880 survey of the American
balance of international payments, COW
ering as it does period marked by
world depression, discloses number OF
striking reversals of world trends in
trade and finance, the measurement of
which is obviously a matter of vital in
terest in all quarters of our economic
community"
American Direct Investments in For
eign Countries. U. S. Department
of Commerce. Trade Information
Bulletin No. 731, 1880. Technology
Division.)
A report on. the first attempt lever
made on a worldwide and detailed
scale to obtain statistics direct from
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