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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume III

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Contents

  • List of Principal Persons
  • List of Papers
  • Russia
    Economic Relations
    • Chapter I. Loans to the Provisional Government—Soviet Financial Decrees
      • Offer of a credit to the Russian Provisional Government, April 3, 1917—Credit of one hundred million dollars established for the purchase of supplies, May 16, 1917—Special credit of seventy-five million dollars established for the payment of forces in Finland, July 17, 1917—Additional credits of one hundred million, August 23, 1917, and fifty million, October 12, 1917—Negotiations for further credits (Documents 1–43)
      • Decree of the Soviet government repudiating all foreign state loans, February 3, 1918: Protest by the Diplomatic Corps at Petrograd; resolution of the Inter-Allied Council—Measures interfering with banking—Decree requiring registration of all securities, April 20, 1918—Assumption of the service of the Russian debt by the British Government; use of bank balances and receipts for this purpose by the Russian Embassy in the United States—Discontinuance of payments by the British Government; impounding of Russian assets—Postponement of interest due to the American Government; continuance of payment on bonds held by private investors (Documents 44–79)
    • Chapter II. Efforts to Stabilize Russian Currency
      • Proposals for financial assistance to the provisional government of the northern region and for the provision of currency in connection with Allied and American operations in Russia—British plan of an office of conversion at Archangel issuing notes based on sterling deposits (Documents 80–93)
      • American plan of an all-Russian currency based on commodity transactions—Execution of the British plan with American consent; difficulties encountered—French plan for a similar emergency currency issue in Siberia—Protest by the Russian Ambassador against measures taken without consultation of the Omsk government—Shipment to Vladivostok of notes printed in the United States for the Provisional Government detained by the American Government (Documents 94–125)
    • Chapter III. Commercial Relations and Relief
      • Restriction of exports to Russia after the revolution of November 1917—Limited shipments of nonmilitary goods permitted—Projects for buying up supplies in Russia to prevent their acquisition by Germany; organization of the “Goods Exchange” (Tovaro-Obmien)—Measures for relief in Archangel and Manchuria (Documents 126–185)
      • American project of an economic and educational mission to Siberia, July 17, 1918—Organization in England of the Siberian Supply Co.—Arrangements with the Allies for provisioning the northern region—Consent of the United States to British control of neutral trade with northern Russia (Documents 186–207)
      • Establishment of the War Trade Board of the United States Russian Bureau, Inc., November 5, 1918—Refusal of sanction for relief in cooperation with Soviet authorities—Accomplishments of the “Goods Exchange” (Tovaro-Obmien) (Documents 208–233)
      • Chinese embargo on exports to Siberia: withdrawal at the instance of the United States (Documents 234–260)
    • Chapter IV. Assistance in Railway Transportation
      • Arrangements for an American commission under John F. Stevens to investigate and advise regarding operation of the Trans-Siberian Railway and to control the forwarding of American supplies through Vladivostok, April 1917—Measures to expedite the delivery of railway material ordered in the United States—Arrival of the commission at Petrograd, June 12, 1917; arrangements for its work—Request for a force of American operators and shopmen as instructors—Improvements effected by the commission—Designation of Stevens as adviser for the entire Russian railway system (Documents 261–307)
      • Uncertainty as to operations following the November revolution—Departure from the United States of the Russian Railway Service Corps under Col. George Emerson, November 18, 1917; arrival at Vladivostok, December 14, 1917; withdrawal to Nagasaki accompanied by Stevens (Documents 308–334)
      • Establishment of Stevens and a portion of the Railway Service Corps at Harbin for service on the Chinese Eastern Railway—Recommendation of Ambassador Francis that railway units be sent to European Russia for cooperation with Soviet authorities—Emerson’s departure for Vologda—Transfer of the remainder of the Railway Service Corps to Vladivostok following seizure by the Czecho-Slovaks (Documents 335–382)
      • Proposal by the American Government to place Stevens in charge of the Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railways, August 30, 1918—Objections by the Japanese Government—Approval of the American plan by France and Italy—Reference of the question by Great Britain to agreement between the United States and Japan (Documents 383–427)
      • Plan for management of the railways by Stevens, October 13, 1918—Japanese objections and counter-proposal for an inter-Allied committee with an advisory technical board headed by Stevens, December 2, 1918—Objections by Stevens—Acceptance of the Japanese plan with modifications making the technical board administrative, January 9, 1919 (Documents 428–461)
    • Chapter V. Treatment of Russian Shipping
      • Charter of several ships of the Volunteer Fleet to the United States Shipping Board, March 30, 1918—Requisition of Russian ships by the British Government—Agreement by the United States to the exclusion of Russian ships from the principle of equal division of chartered tonnage—Protest of the Soviet government against seizure of ships, June 12, 1918—Failure to provide ships for the Kamchatka fishing service (Documents 462–478)
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