Merchants of Peace: Twenty Years of Business Diplomacy Through the International Chamber of Commerce 1919–1938

George L. Ridgeway

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Merchants of Peace

Twenty Years of Business Diplomacy Through the International Chamber of Commerce 1919–1938

George L. Ridgeway

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1938

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Discusses the efforts of the International Chamber of Commerce to remove the barriers to international trade and lessen the impediments to national understanding, focusing on discussions of business men and upon the evolution of the conception of international economic cooperation in business minds.

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Business and Economics Political Economics Political Economics, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword James T. Shotwell Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I. Prewar - A Business Men's International 1905 - 1914
I. The International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations 1905-1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Part II. Postwar - A Business Men's League of Nations and The Reconstruction Movement
II. A Business Peace Conference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
III. Origins of the Reconstruction Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
IV. The Founding of the International Chamber of Commerce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
V. Finance, Labor, and Industry at the Conference of Spa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
VI. The Organization of International Reconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
VII. A Business Settlement of Reparations—The First Effort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
VIII. The Return to Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
IX. The First Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
X. Toward the Dawes Plan and European Reconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
XI. Danubian Reconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
XII. The United States Sponsors a Business Settlement of Reparations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
XIII. The Rome Business Congress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
XIV. The Rome Congress and World Opinion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	178
XV. The Business Settlement of Reparations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
Part III. Economic Disarmament
XVI. The Evolution of International Tariff Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
XVII. A World Customs Conference in Preparation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
XVIII. Business and Officialdom at the League Customs Conference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
XIX. Proposal for a World Economic Conference in 1927 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
XX. The International Chamber at the 1927 Conference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
XXI. "The Year of Commercial Treaties" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	250
Part IV. The Diplomacy of Technics
XXII. The Business of the International Chamber of Commerce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
XXIII. Industrial Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
XXIV. Double Taxation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
XXV. Communications and Transit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	284
XXVI. The Hague Rules: Bills of Lading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
XXVII. A World Court of Business Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Part V. World Business Statesmanship and Catastrophe
XXVIII. Seeds of Catastrophe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
XXIX. The Statesmanship of Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	346
XXX. The Statesmanship of World Business Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	350
XXXI. The Sabotage of Parliament Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
XXXII. The Breakdown: A Proposal for Economic Peace and Its Rejection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	364
XXXIII. World Business Opinion and the New Statesmanship of Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374
Appendices
A. Recommendations of the Joint Committee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Chamber of Commerce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
B. The International Chamber of Commerce in 1938 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405

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May 6, 2019

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9780231886482

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444

https://doi.org/10.7312/ridg91992

eBook ISBN: 9780231886482

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