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- There Will Be the Devil to Pay
- Studies in Macroeconomic History
- There Will Be the Devil to Pay
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Central Bankers and Their World
- 3 Preparing for Crisis (May 11–May 19)
- 4 Foreign Creditors (May 16–May 25)
- 5 Moratorium or Guarantee? (May 25–May 27)
- 6 Guarantee at Last? (May 26–June 1)
- 7 Releasing the BIS Credit (May 29–June 5)
- 8 Surrounded with Trouble (June 5–June 10)
- 9 Where and How to Place? (June 8–June 13)
- 10 A World Political Problem (June 11–June 16)
- 11 Francis Rodd Makes Sense – and a Plot (June 9–June 20)
- 12 To Act Now If We Are to Act at All (June 16–June 27)
- 13 Germany Will Collapse (June 19–July 10)
- 14 Anxiety within Germany at Climax (July 11–July 23)
- 15 Going Off the Gold Standard? (July 14–August 21)
- 16 We Must Not Fool Ourselves Now (August 21–September 17)
- 17 As for the Future of England (September 16–October 23)
- The End (2024)
- Timeline
- Actors in the 1931 Financial Crisis Archives
- Acknowledgements
- Archives
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - A World Political Problem (June 11–June 16)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2024
- There Will Be the Devil to Pay
- Studies in Macroeconomic History
- There Will Be the Devil to Pay
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Central Bankers and Their World
- 3 Preparing for Crisis (May 11–May 19)
- 4 Foreign Creditors (May 16–May 25)
- 5 Moratorium or Guarantee? (May 25–May 27)
- 6 Guarantee at Last? (May 26–June 1)
- 7 Releasing the BIS Credit (May 29–June 5)
- 8 Surrounded with Trouble (June 5–June 10)
- 9 Where and How to Place? (June 8–June 13)
- 10 A World Political Problem (June 11–June 16)
- 11 Francis Rodd Makes Sense – and a Plot (June 9–June 20)
- 12 To Act Now If We Are to Act at All (June 16–June 27)
- 13 Germany Will Collapse (June 19–July 10)
- 14 Anxiety within Germany at Climax (July 11–July 23)
- 15 Going Off the Gold Standard? (July 14–August 21)
- 16 We Must Not Fool Ourselves Now (August 21–September 17)
- 17 As for the Future of England (September 16–October 23)
- The End (2024)
- Timeline
- Actors in the 1931 Financial Crisis Archives
- Acknowledgements
- Archives
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10, A world political problem (June 11 - June 16). This chapter recounts the endgame of the Austrian crisis, while instability spreads to Germany. Norman comes to realize that in reality there is not much the central banks can do, since the real issue is "a world political problem" going all the way back to the Versaille Peace Agreement of 1919, the German war reparations and the allied’s war debts. The International Creditors Committee negotiate in Vienna with the Credit Anstalt and the Austrian government and at the very last minute they succeed in getting guarantee for their deposits, while promising to leave them for at least two years. At the same time, on June 16, negotiations with French bankers over the Austrian bond loans fails, and the Bank of England singlehandedly steps in with a bridge credit to the government. Together, the loan and the standstill agreement stops the Austrian crisis, at least for a while.
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- There Will Be the Devil to PayCentral Bankers, Uncertainty and Sensemaking in the European Financial Crisis of 1931, pp. 163 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025