Czechoslovakia: Restitution of Czechoslovak Gold and UK Claims against Czechoslovakia

A file of correspondence and reports concerning financial claims against Czechoslovakia, and the restitution of Czechoslovak gold held since the Second World War. The documents cover a decision to resume negotiations for the settlement of financial claims between the U.K. and Czechoslovakia relating to intergovernmental wartime debts and postwar private claims; the progress of U.S.-Czechoslovak negotiations for the settlement of debt concerning private property claims and blocked bank accounts; and concerns that the U.S. will seek to act unilaterally by selling off Czechoslovak gold held by the Tripartite Commission, in order to meet the claims of its citizens. Other documents in the file cover a proposed financial agreement between the U.K. and Czechoslovakia; and the Czechoslovak attitude towards the repayment of U.K. intergovernmental debt, which relates to the resettlement of refugees from the Sudetenland, and the upkeep of Czechoslovak forces in the U.K. during the Second World War.