Intro -- beggining -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The International Landscape in the early 1920s -- Chapter 1 -- An American in Paris -- 1.1 The Last months of World War I in Europe -- 1.2 Smith at the Paris Peace Conference -- Chapter 2 -- The United States, the League of Nations, and the Postwar Financial Scene -- 2.1. The New World Order after the War -- 2.2. The US and the Financial Advisory System -- Chapter 3 -- The Beginning of the European Financial Rehabilitation -- 3.1. The First Steps -- 3.2. The Austrian Reconstruction -- Chapter 4 -- Hungary's Appeal to the League of Nations -- 4.1. The Postwar Situation -- 4.2. The Economic Situation and Attempts for a Loan -- Chapter 5 -- The Selection of Jeremiah Smith, Jr. -- 5.1. Search for the Commissioner-General -- 5.2. Enter Mr. Smith -- Chapter 6 -- Raising the Hungarian Loan -- 6.1. The Unsuccessful Attempts -- 6.2. Flotation of the Reconstruction Loan -- 6.3. The Adviser to the New National Bank -- Chapter 7 -- The Technical Side of the Hungarian Reconstruction -- 7.1. The First Year -- 7.2. The Year of 1925 -- 7.3. The Closing Accords of the Great Work -- 7.4. Balance Sheet -- Chapter 8 -- The Personal Side of the Hungarian Reconstruction -- 8.1. The Human Side at Work -- 8.2. Smith's Great Magnanimity -- 8.3. Difference of Personalities -- Chapter 9 -- Post-Reconstruction Relations between an American and Europe -- 9.1. Smith and Hungary -- 9.2. Smith and the League of Nations -- 9.3. The Last Years -- Chapter 10 -- The Financial Reconstructions in Europe -- 10.1. Two Schemes, One Aim: The Comparison of the Austrian and Hungarian Reconstructions -- 10.2. Other Schemes in Europe by the League -- 10.3. Reconstruction Programs outside the League -- 10.4. The Three American Financial Controllers in Europe in the 1920s -- Conclusion -- Index.
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