Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword IX
3. Preface XI
4. Contents XIII
5. Illustrations XV
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Prewar - A Business Men's International 1905 - 1914
8. I. The International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations 1905-1914 13
9. Part II. Postwar - A Business Men's League of Nations and The Reconstruction Movement
10. II. A Business Peace Conference 21
11. III. Origins of the Reconstruction Movement 39
12. IV. The Founding of the International Chamber of Commerce 59
13. V. Finance, Labor, and Industry at the Conference of Spa 78
14. VI. The Organization of International Reconstruction 92
15. VII. A Business Settlement of Reparations—The First Effort 103
16. VIII. The Return to Politics 114
17. IX. The First Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce 122
18. X. Toward the Dawes Plan and European Reconstruction 144
19. XI. Danubian Reconstruction 156
20. XII. The United States Sponsors a Business Settlement of Reparations 163
21. XIII. The Rome Business Congress 168
22. XIV. The Rome Congress and World Opinion 178
23. XV. The Business Settlement of Reparations 182
24. Part III. Economic Disarmament
25. XVI. The Evolution of International Tariff Policy 195
26. XVII. A World Customs Conference in Preparation 201
27. XVIII. Business and Officialdom at the League Customs Conference 209
28. XIX. Proposal for a World Economic Conference in 1927 217
29. XX. The International Chamber at the 1927 Conference 227
30. XXI. "The Year of Commercial Treaties" 250
31. Part IV. The Diplomacy of Technics
32. XXII. The Business of the International Chamber of Commerce 263
33. XXIII. Industrial Property 273
34. XXIV. Double Taxation 279
35. XXV. Communications and Transit 284
36. XXVI. The Hague Rules: Bills of Lading 309
37. XXVII. A World Court of Business 317
38. Part V. World Business Statesmanship and Catastrophe
39. XXVIII. Seeds of Catastrophe 335
40. XXIX. The Statesmanship of Nationalism 346
41. XXX. The Statesmanship of World Business 350
42. XXXI. The Sabotage of Parliament 355
43. XXXII. The Breakdown: A Proposal for Economic Peace and Its Rejection 364
44. XXXIII. World Business Opinion and the New Statesmanship of Reform 374
45. Appendices
46. A. Recommendations of the Joint Committee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Chamber of Commerce 395
47. B. The International Chamber of Commerce in 1938 399
48. Index 405