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2 Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California Contact Information Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California Phone: (650) Fax: (650) Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Arthur N. (Arthur Date (inclusive): Collection number: Creator: Young, Arthur N. (Arthur Nichols), Extent: Collection Size: 119 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope, 1 oversize box, 1 album box, 1 phonotape cassette(55.5 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California Abstract: Diary, correspondence, reports, studies, statistical summaries, financial statements, press releases, clippings, and ephemeral publications, relating to the European financial crisis following World War I, the work of the Reparations Commission in formulating the Dawes Plan in 1924, and the economic and financial situation in China, Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives Language: English. Access Collection open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights Users must sign a statement agreeing to the conditions of use set down by A. N. Young Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Arthur N. (Arthur [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Access Points Inter-Allied Commission for Reparations United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration United States. Dept. of State Finance--China Finance--East Asia Finance--Europe World War, World War, Reparations China

3 China--Economic conditions East Asia Europe Germany Germany--Economic conditions United States--Foreign relations Economists 1890, Nov. 21 Born, Los Angeles, California 1910 A.B., Occidental College 1937 LL.D., Occidental College 1911 A.M., Princeton University 1914 Ph.D., Princeton University 1927 LL.B., George Washington University 1915 Married Ellen May Bailey Professor of Economics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina Instructor of Economics, Princeton University 1916 Author, The Single Tax Movement in the United States 1918 Author, Finances of the Federal District of Mexico 1918 Adviser on taxation, Mexican Government 1918 Trade expert, War Trade Board 1919 Trade Commissioner to investigate financial conditions in Spain for U.S. Department of Commerce Economist in office of foreign trade adviser, Department of State Financial adviser to Government of Honduras 1920 Author, Spanish Finance and Trade Financial expert, Department of State Economic adviser, Department of State 1924 Associate of American observer with Reparations Commission, Paris, during preparation of Dawes Plan Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee on Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters 1926 Delegate to International Conference on Oil Pollution, Washington, D.C Expert attending World Economic Conference, Geneva 1929 Expert on public credit, Commission of Financial Experts of Chinese Government Financial adviser Chinese Government and Central Bank of China 1931 Member, Chinese Flood Relief Commission 1933 Expert, Chinese Economic Mission, Washington, D.C Member of committee on establishment of Central Reserve Bank Director, China National Aviation Corporation 1940 Vice-president, Chinese-American Institute of Cultural Relations 1942 Vice-chairman, United China Relief Coordinating Committee 1943 Chairman, American Relief and Red Cross in China 1944 Trustee, China Foundation 1944 Adviser, Chinese Government Commission of Relief and Rehabilitation 1944 Member of Chinese delegation to Bretton Woods Financial Conference 1947 Author, China's Economic and Financial Reconstruction 1953 Author, Saudi Arabian Currency and Finance Director, Point IV program in Saudi Arabia and financial adviser to Saudi Arabia Financial Consultant, International Cooperation Administration Lecturer, Occidental College Consultant on taxation in Argentina 1971 Author, China's Nation-Building Effort, ; The Financial and Economic Record

4 Reparations and the Reparations Commission, Box: 1-6 Reparations and the Reparations Commission, Scope and Content Note Correspondence, reports, memoranda, and printed matter collected by A.N. Young during and after his participation in the Paris Reparations Commission of Box 1. Diary, Reparations, Reparations, Dawes' Plan. Letters and Memoranda. Reparation developments after Dawes' Plan, Memoranda, letters and communiques. Reparations: newspaper clippings and articles, Reparations: newspaper clippings, Box 2. American Army costs, United States claim on Germany, Dawes' Plan. Memoranda, Dawes' Plan. Reports of the reparation commission, Germany. Labor wages and unemployment, German food situation, German food situation, German health conditions, Germany. Economic situation, Political attitude of leading German newspaper. Box 3. German loans in the United States, Transfer problems, Revaluation of German currency and obligations, German budget, German currency and banking, Dutch-German credit agreement, 1920, Box 4. French finances, French occupation of the Ruhr, Lecture given by A.N. Young on reparation problems, June German dyes and reparations, Treaty changes on Germany, Box 5. War debts. Belgium, War debts. United States and British matters, War debts. Greece, War debts. Italy, War debts. Turkey, War debts. Yugoslavia, United States war debts. Official reports on settlements, Reparations. Austria Financial rehabilitation Hungary, War debts, finances, Czechoslovakia. Box 6. War debts. France, War debts. Private and official views, War debts. Miscellaneous, War debts. Newspaper clippings, Box: Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Scope and Content Note Correspondence, reports, studies, statistical summaries, financial statements, press releases, news clippings, and ephemeral publications related to the economic and financial situation in China and acquired by A.N. Young as the financial adviser. Arranged in two subseries, the office files for the period (boxes 7-61) and the office files for the period (boxes ). Box Debts, general and statistics,

5 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Box 11. Boxer Indemnity, Box Customs-secured foreign loans, Salt secured debt, Box 14. Salt secured debt, Domestic loans secured on Boxer Indemnity, Box 15. Domestic loans secured on customs, Domestic loans secured on other than customs. Box 16. Domestic loans secured on other than customs. Consolidation, internal loans, Box 17. Consolidation, internal loans, Debts, claims of chief countries for debts in arrears, Box 18. Debts, claims of chief countries for debts in arrears, Efforts for a general debt settlement, Box 19. Efforts for a general debt settlement, Box Debt settlements, Finance Ministry (including Tsin-Pu and Hukuang loan issues), Box 24. Unsettled foreign debts, 1937 Internal debts in arrears, Box 25. Internal debts in arrears, Scope and Content Note Includes Chinese American Banc of Commerce Railway dept Box 26. Railway debt, general, , Box 27. Individual railways and their debts, Box 28. Individual railways and their debts, Railways, Manchuria, Communications (except railways), debts and agreements, Box 29. Communications, debts and agreements, Customs, general, Box 30. Customs, general, Box 31. Customs collection in gold, Manchurian customs, Box 32. Salt revenue, general, Salt revenue, Manchuria, Box 33. Salt revenue, Manchuria, Internal taxation, except salt, Box 34. Budget, Box 35. Roads, shipping, telecommunications, aviation, Box 36. Roads, shipping, telecommunications, aviation, China, government and political, Box 37. China, government and political, Reports on China's debt: Memo on China's obligation under charge of Ministry of Railways, by Arthur N. Young. Oct Physical Description: 17pp. China's Obligations under Charge of the Ministries of Railways and Communications, etc., by Arthur N. Young. Aug Physical Description: 78pp. Box 38. Annual Reports of the Ministry of Finance of Republic of China, , , , Reports on China's debt. By Arthur N. Young Silver, statistics, Box Silver and currency, general, Box 41. Copper coins,

6 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Note issue, Regional currencies, Box 42. Gold, Currency reform of Box 43. Currency reform of Box 44. Currency, international negotiations, Nov to July Box 45. Currency policy, memos, Banking, Central Bank, Box 46. Central Bank, Box 47. Central Reserve Bank project, Coinage and mint, Box 48. Coinage and mint, Prices, including published price indexes and reports, Box 49. Prices. Box 50. Prices. Data prepared for Leith-Ross, Box 51. Finance, general, Box 52. Finance, general, Economic development, reconstruction and planning, education, patents, treaties, Box 53. Economic development, Japan and China, clippings, printed matter, press releases, Box 54. Japan and China, Box 55. Japan and China, Flood relief, Box 56. Flood relief, Box 57. Commodity loan negotiations, Cotton and wheat loan, Box Cotton and wheat loan, Box 61. Cotton and wheat loan, Posters (three) Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Box 62. Prices. Kunming-Chungking Farmers' Bank. Various cities, European inflation, Box 63. Prices. Shanghai, Prices. Shanghai, CRB October China Weekly Review August 1926 (daily translation service). Economic Weekly, University of Nanking, April 3, September 23, Financial price statistics ; wholesale prices in Shanghai Princes in Peiping Box 64. Fortnightly letter, etc., December 1, Central Bank of China - Daily reports. December 1945-July Weekly reports, financial statements. Box 65. Central Bank of China - Daily reports and financial statements, September 1946-November Box 66. Daily reports and financial statements, November-December Economic News Bulletin, March-June Box 67. Economic News Bulletin, June-August Box 68. Telegrams, Rogers, Pei, January-December Central Bank of China, statements, Currency, January-June Import and export papers, July Currency, July-August Currency, September-December Currency, January-June

7 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Box 69. Currency, June-December Currency, January-May Currency, June-December Exchange control, Finance Ministry's exchange allotments, Exchange banking, July 1937-March Telegrams, Rogers and Pei, Box 70. Allotments, Currency, Import and exchange registrations, Operation of Mandate, March 12, Hankow currency exchange, early Central Bank reserves, mid 1937-August Box 71. Correspondence, telegrams, conference notes, Telegrams, letters, Rogers and Pei, 1938-January 4, Stabilization Fund, July-November Stabilization Fund, Exchange allotments, Currency, June-December Box 72. Telegrams, Rogers and Pei, United States, freezing and control, Kunming, Chengtu (documents, correspondence, statistical reports), Stabilization agreements, Trade controls-stabilization, August British and Hongkong exchange registrations, Box 73. Customs, Customs, Customs, 8 December Customs, Customs, August Customs, Treasury law, Customs and salt. Trade control, China and American Trade Council, Foreign trade, Export and import, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Box 74. Salt, January-June Salt, July-December Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, United States - Japan trade embargo, Trade controls, Land tax figures, various dates. Taxes, Land taxes, Taxation, Box 75. Customs, August December Customs and Anglo-Japanese Customs Agreement, January-April Anglo-Japanese Agreement, 29 April-31 May Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous,

8 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Miscellaneous, Box 76. Budget figures, mid-1937 to mid Budget (miscellaneous), Budget data, Anglo-Japanese customs agency, 11 June December Customs (miscellaneous), Taxation, Box 77. Price controls, Princes, Chengtu, Prices, Prices, Prices, Prices, Prices, Exchange rates. Market reports, Market reports to 30 June Box 78. International Monetary Fund, telegrams International Monetary Fund, June International Monetary Fund, 1 June International Monetary Fund, International Monetary Fund, 15 June August Box 79. Market reports, Market reports, North China currency, North China currency, North China currency, Central Reserve Bank, Shanghai, Hua-Hsing Bank, Puppet currency. Puppet currency, Banking, Nelson-war production and inflation, Box 80. South China currency, Currency, Currency, Currency, Currency, August Box 81. National Aid Council, National Aid Council, Reconstruction and development, Reconstruction programs, August Reconstruction programs, November Unidentified correspondence, reports, etc., Box 82. UNRRA papers, May - June UNRRA report, July - December UNRRA, August UNRRA, UNRRA - China's ability to pay, UNRRA documents, May - August CNRRA, June UNRRA relief, Box 83. Developments, March Relief and rehabilitation, Relief and rehabilitation (miscellaneous), January - June Relief, UCR Relief, UCR UCR, American Advisory Committee, private relief

9 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Box 84. Planning for post war. General, Planning for post war. General, Planning for post war. General, Foreign capital investments, Foreign banks in China, International banks to 15 June International banks from 15 June 1944 to Box 85. Chinese industrial cooperatives. International Food Conference, Insurance, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold, Box 86. Debts, memoranda, China. Wartime internal debt, regulations and figures, Joint office of four government banks, authorized loans, Boxer indemnity, (China Foundation). Boxer indemnity from 1945 (China Foundation). Box 87. Liberty loans, Internal foreign currency debts, Internal borrowings from the public in National Chinese dollars, Chinese News Service, Box 88. Russian aid, French-Belgian loans, Britain-purchase credits of K.P. Chen's mission to the United States K.P. Chen's mission to the United States, T.V. Soong's mission, United States $500 million loan, Foreign loans, post war period. Box 89. Report by A.N. Young dated February 1934 and memorandum by Arthur Young dated October Financing China Invasion. Report by A.N. Young submitted to John McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, 21 October Foreign loans, July June Extended assets and their use, British loans, United States bond scheme, to issuance, United States securities, from issuance 1942 to August Japanese cost of war in China, correspondence and charts. United States army and navy costs in China. Reverse lend-lease. Miscellaneous military matters. United States savings certificates, United States lend-lease, United States lend-lease, Lend-lease (United States and Britain) after Box 90. Debt moratorium, 1938 to 31 January Debt moratorium and negotiations from 1 February Debt figures (miscellaneous), Debt quotations, Debt in arrears, Foreign debts (miscellaneous), June June Foreign debts (miscellaneous), June December Enemy seized bonds, Looted securities

10 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Box 91. Finance Ministry reports, Debt memos (China) for Stanford University Library. Memoranda and reports by A.N. Young, June and July 1945, January and July Exchange rates, United States dollars, quotations, Gold, Silver, Hong Kong - Macao, Financial controls, miscellaneous. Foreign loans, miscellaneous, July - December Box 92. Balance of payments, Balance of payments, International Monetary Fund, Documents. Revenues and expenditures, Miscellaneous. Banking land, etc., Banking, Bretton Woods Conference. General post war fund. Budget 1946-current data. Box 93. Trade and trade control. Trade and trade control, Cotton credit, Cotton credit, Foreign credits to China (except cotton), Military aid to China. Military matters, Economic conditions, Political and miscellaneous material, post war. Box 94. United States post war aid. Private debts, Profits tax, Surplus property, Surplus property (lend-lease), Shanghai stock exchange, Shanghai Power Company, Trade, 1 June December Box 95. Supply of money, Currency, 1 September 1946 to Currency, Currency, Foreign Exchange Equalizations and Fund Committee. Foreign Exchange Equalization Fund Report, 31 December Daily notes on meetings. Daily market reports, Market operations, December June Exchange operations, Exchange operations, March - June Exchange regulations and orders, Box 96. Weekly report of foreign exchange. Statement showing foreign exchange purchases. Unauthorized imports. Exchange Equalization Fund accounts. Daily fund rates. Reports from Bank of Canton, Hong Kong. Exchange bought Box 97. Currency, 15 August December North China. Post-war currency. Exchange control, Forms. Regulation forms for exchange control, February Brokers,

11 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Exchange control circulars, 2 March - 12 August Applications and cases. Old papers regarding plans enforcing exchange, early Press comments on currency, Control Bank, 1 January - 6 August United States $500 million reserve, Foreign currency; exchange position, Box 98. Miscellaneous material from Cyril Rogers, Central Bank of China, Notes, 1945 and Notes, 1948 and Blocked funds. Chinese private assets abroad, to Needs and sources of exchange, Needs and sources of exchange, Foreign currency positions, Prices, Prices, Box 99. Clippings, statements, correspondence on United States economic embargo against Japan, including correspondence with The American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression, China Air Mail, by Gunther Stein, Newspaper and magazine clippings on China, (collected by Allen Young). Box 100. Japan and China, press clippings, 21 July to 10 August Japan and China, press clippings, 21 August to 5 September Japan and China, press clippings, 6 September to 23 September Japan and China, press clippings, 24 September to 7 October Japan and China, press clippings, 8 October to 31 October Box 101. Japan and China, press clippings, 1939 (Allen Young). Japan and China, press clippings, News and press releases, North China, clippings and statements, 7 July 1937 to 20 July Miscellaneous leaflets, pamphlets and publications relating to China. Box 102. Newspaper clippings, July - December Newspaper clippings, Newspaper clippings, Japan and China, Box 103. CNAC statements, CNAC, Chungking file, CNAC, Chungking file, CNAC aviation, 1 January to 30 July CNAC aviation, 1 July to 31 December Box 104. CNAC aviation, 1 January to 30 June CNAC aviaiton, 1 July to 31 December CNAC aviation, CNAC (miscellaneous), Box 105. Burma Road, Indo-China Route, Burma Road, Indo-China Route, Burma Road, Indo-China Route, Burma Road, Indo-China Route, January - June Burma Road, Indo-China Route, June - July Burma Road, Indo-China Route, August Burma-China Railway, Air routes, Burma-India, Import goods by air and Stilwell road, Aviation-military, Military (miscellaneous), Box 106. Aviation Consolidation Trade Company, Propos[UNK]ed aviation school, Aviation, civil, 1940 (Washington file). Aviation, civil, 1 January - 31 May 1941 (Washington file)

12 Office Files of the Financial Adviser to the Government of China, Aviation, Flying Tigers, Communications (miscellaneous), Aviation (miscellaneous), Water transport, Box: Subject File, Scope and Content Note Reports, studies, ephemeral publications, and news clippings. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Box 107. China, Agriculture, Communist China, general, Culture and education, Currency, Customs, Economic reconstruction, Box 108. Finance, Japanese relations, Law, 1945 Nationalist China, Box 109. Taiwan, 1951, Institute of Pacific Relations. Annual Reports, Conference Papers, and China Bibliography, Office of the American Commercial Attache, Reports, Box 110. Office of the American Commercial Attache. Reports, Increment. Oral History Interview with Dr. Arthur N. Young, Pasadena, California, February 21, 1974, by James R. Fuchs, Harry S. Truman Library Physical Description: 157 p. Box 111. Banking from Central Bank from Food situation, rice, Graphs from Prices, etc. Graphs of finances, Note issue from Silver and Coinage from Wartime statistics, misc. (largely prepared for [Laughlin] Currie). Box 112. Chinese finances, Oral History Interview (photocopy) Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, August, Printed material, Shanghai finances, Silver, Silver and gold, July-December, Silver sales, July, 1937-June, Box 113. Diary, (incomplete). China Commercial treaties Communism Report to the Prime Minister, Taiwan, Russia - China relations, Yalta and its sequel, Box 114. Chau, Yau Pik, The Taxation Reforms of the Chinese National Government in the Decade , Doctoral Dissertation, University of Chicago, March, Box 115. China Ministry of Finance

13 Subject File, Reports Chinese Budget Law, edited by Frederick A. Cleveland, n.d. Estimates and Budget of the Inspectorate of Salt Revenue for the 19th Fiscal Year of the Chinese Republic, September 9, Report on Personnel Administration, by Frederick A. Cleveland, Statistical Review of the Work of the Inspectorate, , by Frederick A. Cleveland, Box 116. Annual Reports, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, German Reich's Budget Law of December 31, 1922, edited by Frederick A. Cleveland, New Monetary Policy of China, The, Currency Reserve Board, Shanghai, January 15, Physical Description: (2 copies). Problem of Putting the Principles of the New Salt Law into Effect The, by Frederick A. Cleveland, Regulations Governing the Reich's Cash Offices, (Reichskassenordnung: R.K.O.) Promulgated 6th August, 1927, edited by Frederick A. Cleveland, Statistical Review of the Work of the Inspectorate of Salt Revenue from 1913 to 1933 Inclusive, Digest of Facts and Statement of Conclusions Reached in Report, by Frederick A. Cleveland, National Economic Council Annual report, Opening Address delivered at the First Meeting on November Fifteenth in the Twentieth Year of the Republic of China, National Flood Relief Commission Work of the National Flood Relief Commission of the National Government of China, The - August, 1931-June, 1932, Shanghai, June, State Council China's Economic Reform Plan, Temporary Regulations with Regard to Foreign Exchange Transactions, Temporary Foreign Trade Regulations, February 25, League of Nations Council Committee of Technical Collaboration with China. Report to the Council of its Technical Delegate on his Mission in China from Date of Appointment until April 1, Annexes to above, April,