03545nam 2200709 a 450 991078218410332120230912133235.00-7735-7305-410.1515/9780773573055(CKB)1000000000522747(OCoLC)560352782(CaPaEBR)ebrary10176103(SSID)ssj0000277625(PQKBManifestationID)11214346(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277625(PQKBWorkID)10241533(PQKB)10218304(CaPaEBR)407615(CaBNvSL)slc00204668(Au-PeEL)EBL3331562(CaPaEBR)ebr10178211(OCoLC)923230860(DE-B1597)655946(DE-B1597)9780773573055(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/snmz25(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/4/407615(MiAaPQ)EBC3331562(MiAaPQ)EBC3248778(EXLCZ)99100000000052274720060628d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCanada and the cost of World War II[electronic resource] the international operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947 /Robert B. Bryce ; edited by Matthew J. Bellamy ; foreword by Gordon Robertson, afterword by J.L. GranatsteinMontréal McGill-Queen's University Press20051 online resource (419 p.)Carleton library series ;204Sequel to Maturing in hard times.Includes index.Originally an unpublished document, written 1990, and sent to C. Scott Clark, Deputy Minister of Finance, on Sept. 3, 1999.0-7735-2938-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-383) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Unprepared Beginnings -- The EAC and Trade Problems -- The Air Training Plan Negotiations -- Financing Britain -- Scarce us Dollars and the Hyde Park Declaration -- US Economic Arrangements and Dollars Galore -- Mutual Aid to Allies -- Financing Britain Further and Keynes’s Visits -- Working up to Bretton Woods -- International Institutions -- The 1946 British Loan and Settlement -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction. Canada's financial aid made it possible for Britain to wage an effective war and then deal with the destruction it wrought. Bryce details how Canada's Department of Finance can also be credited with overcoming some of Britain's most pressing balance-of-payments problems after the war.Carleton library series ;204.Finance, PublicCanadaWorld War, 1939-1945FinanceCanadaCanadaAppropriations and expendituresFinance, PublicWorld War, 1939-1945Finance352.46097109044Bryce Robert B(Robert Broughton),1910-1521656Bellamy Matthew J.1967-1521657MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782184103321Canada and the cost of World War II3760984UNINA