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Part I: World Affairs -- A. The League of Nations -- The admission of germany to membership in the league and the controversy over the composition of the league council - (a) introductory - (b) germany's ratification of the locarno pact and application for admission to membership in the league of nations - (c) the composition of the council, january 1920-march 1926 - (d) the development of the diplomatic situation on the eve of the special session of the league assembly, convened for the 6th march, 1926 - (e) the special assembly of the league, 8th-17th march, 1926 - (f) the repercussions of the special assembly of the league, held in march 1926, in different countries - (g) the committee on the composition of the council - (h) the seventh session of the assembly, 6th-25th september, 1926 - note on the question of unpaid contributions to the league of nations -- The united states and the permanent court of international justice, by h. lauterpacht, ll.d. -- B. Inter-Ally Debts. By R.J. Stopford -- Introduction -- The history of war borrowing between allied governments -- The post-war period up to the end of 1921 -- The period of negotiations (1922-4) -- The period of debt settlements (1924-6) - (a) completed settlements with the united states - (b) completed settlements with the united kingdom - (c) unfunded debts -- A comparison of the settlements -- Problems of the future - (a) reparation payments in their relation to debts - (b) financial capacity of the debtors - (c) the transfer problem -- Part II: Europe -- A. Western Europe -- The international steel cartel, by m.s. birkett -- B. South-eastern Europe -- Introduction -- The little entente (1926) -- Greece, jugoslavia and salonica -- The international repercussions of the forged banknotes scandal in hungary -- The financial reconstruction of austria (1924-6) -- The financial reconstruction of hungary (1925-6) -- The bulgarian refugees' loan -- Part III: The Far East -- A. The Situation in China - a. Introduction - note on chinese maritime customs revenue and on defaults on chinese loans -- The vortex round peking -- The chinese civil war: the joint campaign of the two military dictators, chang tso-lin and wu p'ei-fu, against feng yü-hsiang in the north (1926) -- The taku forts incident -- The proceedings of the extra-territoriality commission -- The denunciation of treaties by the peking government - (a) the denunciation of the sino-french treaty of the 25th april, 1886, regarding the commercial relations between china and french indo-china - (b) the denunciation of the sino-belgian treaty of the 2nd november, 1865 - (c) the demand for the revision of the sino-japanese commercial treaty of the 21st july, 1896 - (d) the outlook in january 1927 -- The seizure of the revenues of the salt gabelle at tientsin -- The recrudescence of the conflict between chang tso-lin and the soviet russian authorities over the chinese eastern railway, and the recall of monsieur karakahn from peking -- The vortex round canton -- The struggle at canton between the right and left wings of the kuomintang - note on mr. eugune chen -- The lifting of the anti-british boycott at canton - note on the trade of hongkong 1920-6 -- The Imposition of the washington surtaxes on the maritime customs in south and north, and the dismissal of sir francis aglen -- The vortex in the yangtze basin -- The Chinese civil war: the campaign of the kuominstang against wu p'ei-fu and sun ch'uan-fang in the south (down to the occupation of the native city of shanghai by chang tsung-ch'ang) -- Foreign navigation on the yangtse and the wanhsien incident - note on the history of steam navigation on the upper yangtze -- Relations between the kuomintang and great britain, 10th october, 1926-19th february, 1927 - (a) introductory - (b) the extradition of members of the kuomintang from the british concession at tientsin, 23rd november, 1926 - (c) the conversations at hankow between mr. miles lampson and mr. eugene chen on the 8th-17th december, 1926; the communication of a statement of british policy to the diplomatic corps at peking on the 18th december; and the communication of british proposals for treaty modification to the hankow and peking governments on the 37th and 28th january, 1927, respectively - (d) the 'anti-foreign movement' - note on injuries inflicted upon foreigners in china by piracy, brigandage, and civil war (1926) - (e) the occupation of the british concessions at hankow and kiukiang and the negotiations between mr. o'malley and mr. chen (january and february 1927) - note on the suggested rendition of the british concession at tientsin - (f) the situation at shanghai and the dispatch of the shanghai defence force by the british government -- B. The Pacific -- Introduction -- The orientation of japanese foreign policy -- The administration of mandates in the pacific - note on native education in the mandated territory of new guinea -- The philippine islands and the united states -- The disturbances in netherlands india (1926-7) -- Chinese immigration into tropical territories in the pacific area -- Appendices -- Membership of the league of nations at the 31st december, 1926 -- Inter-ally debts - (a) dispatch to the representatives of france, italy, serb-croat-slovene state, rumania, portugal and greece at london respecting war debts, 1st august, 1922 [the 'balfour note'] - (b) act of the united states congress creating the world war foreign debt commission, approved on the 9th february, 1922 - (c) arrangements for the funding of the british debt to the united states of america -- The International Steel Agreement between Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg, signed on the 30th september, 1926 -- Rumanian Treaties - (a) treaty of guarantee between poland and rumania, signed at bucarest, 26th march, 1926 - (b) treaty of friendship between france and rumania, signed at paris, 10th june, 1926 - (c) treaty of friendship between italy and rumania, signed at rome, 16th september, 1926 -- China - (a) british memorandum on china communicated by h.m. chargé d'affaires at peking on the 18th december, 1926, to the representatives of the washington treaty powers; together with a memorandum communicated to the united states embassy in london on the 28th may, 1926 - (b) proposed measures for treaty modification communicated by the british government to mr. chen at hankow on the 27th january, and to dr. koo at peking on the 28th january, 1927 - (c) the rendition of the shanghai mixed court -- Japanese Foreign Policy - (a) speech delivered by the japanese minister for foreign affairs, baron shidehara, before the imperial diet ont he 21st january, 1926 - (b) speech delivered by baron shidehara, japanese minister for foreign affairs, before the imperial diet on teh 18th january, 1927 -- Chronology of events and treaties, 1st january-31st december, 1926 -- Maps: -- Population density of China -- China -- Manchurian railways -- Shanghai -- The world on Mollweide's projection

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