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Foreign Bondholdings in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

J. Reuben Clark Jr.*
Affiliation:
Of the Board of Editors

Extract

The Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., has issued its fourth Annual Report for the year 1937 in a volume containing some 790 pages.

The Report shows that during 1937 the Council was concerned with twenty-six situations in twenty different countries involving 254 bond issues of an approximate face value of $1,800,000,000. During the year two temporary adjustments were announced with Poland, two permanent adjustments with China, also permanent adjustments covering Uruguayan national and municipal bonds.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © by the American Society of International Law 1938

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* Both temporary and permanent adjustments have been made on Polish bonds.

* Both temporary and permanent adjustments have been made on Polish bonds.

a Includes Canada for which actual payments for 1936 and 1937 total $199,365,505, and estimated payments for 1934 and 1935 total $206,000,000.

a Made up of $1,166,000 paid by Finland, which was full service, and $501,266 paid by Greece, which was partial service. (Hungary deposited nearly $10,000 worth of pengoes on December 15, 1937.)