Gold

Germany’s post-war economic crisis culminated in hyperinflation in 1923. The dramatic events that year contribute to shaping the retrospective chronology of the Weimar Republic: the crisis appears to conclude the …

the link between the price of gold and the mark was cut. While the gold mark remained valuable, the paper … estimated overall sum payable amounted to 132 billion gold marks. At the end of June 1921, ‘[British economist] … payments of wood and coal replacing the non-existing gold currency and, in response, France and Belgium occupied … first time stabilised by matching the country’s gold reserves again. By 1924, the Dawes Plan, agreed …

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

Cost of lunch for meeting to discuss the "Albanian Gold" - amount of alcohol involved may be why negotiations …

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

relations, and blocked the return of the Albanian gold reserves which, having been looted by 2 Telegram … relations), and it took five more years to arrange the gold-for-compensation swap.3 The absence of British …

A file containing documents relating to leading personalities in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include the death of the second secretary of the communist party, Mikhail Suslov; …

which is accompanied b y the Order of Lenin and gold "Hammer and Sickle" m e d a l . The award, which …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning proposed visits to Eastern Europe to be undertaken by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington. The documents cover plans to combine visits to Yugoslavia …

the negotiations on UK claims and Czechoslovak gold played a part in the decision to visit Prague (ie …

PRIVATELY THE STRONG BELIEF THAT RESOLUTION OF THE GOLD PROBLEM HAD R E M O V E D THE MAJOR IRRITANT IN … agenda, Mr Rifkind said that the resolution of the gold problem had happily removed an irritant in UK/Czechoslovak … regular exchanges of views to be very useful. The gold problem had been an obstacle to normal relations … outcome as it had to pay for the return of its own gold. It had not been easy to get parliament and the … Jablonsky believed that with the removal of the gold issue bilateral relations were running smoothly …

1980 1981 US$ MILL Total Reserves (excluding gold) 492 711 774 829 *Months of Imports covered … Total Reserves 445 • 492 711 774 (excluding gold) tenths of Imports of goods 0.95 0.84 1.14 1 … is iron ore. Fairly small deposits of uranium, gold, silver and antimony are also present. 4 . Zhivkov … * Total Reserves 445 492 711 774 (excluding gold) tenths of Imports of goods 0.95 0.84 1.14 1 …

includes a report on Hungary's economy, covering its external debt, interest repayments, reserves of gold and convertible currencies, balance of payments, and annual cash flows. …

possesses deposits of copper, iron ore, chrome, gold, mercury, beryl, emeralds, fluorspar, lead, zinc … natural gas, oil, iron ore, polymetallic ores, gold and mercury. The Russians are likely to secure …

»Total Reaervea ^tH 629 iCQ't 12*7 (excluding gold) ' • Months of Imports of goody 0.^8"' 0 o 6 …