The Failure of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council Experiment, 1934–1940
This article explores the contentious U.S. State Department–Foreign Bondholders Protective Council relationship in the context of interwar foreign economic policy and bureaucratic competition. U.S. officials created the council in 1933 to represent the interests of U.S. investors in the settlement of the numerous dollar bond issues that had gone into default. The article shows why the council failed to perform as U.S. officials expected and outlines the process by which they increasingly interposed themselves in debt negotiations. In doing so, it considers the limitations of using private organizations to accomplish the objectives of public policy.
The Making of a Realpolitiker@@@Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945.
For this new edition, Dallek has added an Afterword to his classic, Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy, which was first published in 1981. He answers recent critics who have attacked Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for 'giving away' Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and for abandoning European Jews during the Holocaust. Dallek reaffirms the strength and effectiveness of Roosevelt's diplomacy and wartime leadership.
Europe: The World's Banker, 1870-1914.
tions (p. 93), the position of individuals in international law (p. 79), the posi­ tion of the Jewish Agency in Palestine (p. 100), the legal nature of the mandated communities (p. 96), and the legal effect of Council resolutions (p. 192), are dealt with. The author handles all of these questions with acuteness and penetration. The book is an important contribution to the literature of the newer international law. Q u in c y W e ig h t