Meddling in Middle Europe: Britain And the 'lands Between' 1919-1925

Table of Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
PART I  BRITAIN AND HUNGARY: PARTNERSHIP OF CONVENIENCE......Page 19
1.1 Sir George Clerk’s Missions......Page 20
1.2 The Hungarian Peace Treaty and the British-French Rivalry......Page 30
1.3 Hungary’s Internal Affairs......Page 41
1.4 The Karlist Coup Attempts, Plebiscite......Page 45
1.5 The End of Politics......Page 51
1.6 An Exception: Internal Affairs Once More......Page 52
1.7 Hungary and European Security......Page 54
Notes......Page 57
2.1 British Central Banking in the Service of European Recovery......Page 67
2.2 Montagu Norman and the Monetary Reconstruction of Central Europe......Page 72
2.3 Norman’s Triumph: Hungary......Page 77
2.4 Balance Sheet......Page 132
Notes......Page 139
PART II  BRITAIN AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA: FRIENDSHIP TO ESTRANGEMENT......Page 160
3.1 The Post-war Phase......Page 161
3.2 Czechoslovak Party Politics and the British......Page 166
3.3 Whitehall, Beneš, and the Genoa Conference......Page 167
3.4 Away from the Limelight: Beneš and Hungarian Politics......Page 171
3.5 Masaryk and Beneš in British Eyes......Page 173
3.6 The British and the Ethnic Problems of Czechoslovakia......Page 174
3.7 Strained Relations......Page 177
3.8 1924: A Year of Rapprochement......Page 181
3.9 Britain, Czechoslovakia and the Central European System......Page 182
3.10 Britain, Czechoslovakia and European Security......Page 185
3.11 Czechoslovak-Polish Disputes and the British......Page 191
3.12 Negative Contingencies......Page 197
3.13 Trade Links Frustrated......Page 199
Notes......Page 201
4.1 Early Stability......Page 212
4.2 Finance in Internal and External Politics......Page 214
4.3 The Eight per cent State Loan......Page 216
4.4 The Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank......Page 219
4.5 A Delicate Problem: Czechoslovak Wartime Debts to Britain......Page 225
4.6 The Second Tranche of the Eight per cent Loan......Page 227
4.7 New Foreign Loan without British Participation......Page 231
4.8 Britain and the National Bank of Czechoslovakia......Page 232
Notes......Page 239
PART III  BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS POLAND: DIPLOMATS AND BANKERS AGAINST HEAVY ODDS......Page 246
5.1 Resurrection or Creation......Page 247
5.2 Poland’s Borders, the Foreign Office, and the British Cabinet......Page 250
5.3 Poland, the Northern Department and British Representatives: from Versailles to 1924......Page 264
5.4 Poland and the Labour Government in Britain......Page 278
5.5 Anglo-Polish Relations and the Treaty of Locarno......Page 279
5.6 Impediments to Commercial Progress......Page 288
Notes......Page 290
6.1 Background: The Daunting Legacy......Page 302
6.2 Britain and Early Attempts to Stabilise the Financial Situation in Poland......Page 304
6.3 Reginald Leeper’s Reports and Hilton Young’s First Visit to Poland......Page 307
6.4 The Young Report......Page 310
6.5 The Establishment of the Bank of Poland and the Issuing of a New Currency......Page 314
6.6 Poland, the Bank of England, the British Treasury, and the Financial Committee of the League of Nations......Page 317
6.7 Central Bankers on Gold, Credit Reserves, and the New World Economy......Page 325
Notes......Page 331
Conclusion......Page 338
Bibliography......Page 345
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