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With increasing world economic interdependence and a new position as a creditor nation, the American business community became more actively and vocally concerned with foreign policy after World War I than ever before. This book details the response of American businessmen to such foreign policy issues as the tariff, disarmament, allied debts, loans, and the Manchurian crisis.Far from presenting a monolithic front, the business community fragmented into nationalist and internationalist camps, according to this study. Division over each issue varied with the size, type, and geographic region of

The influence of US business leaders on US post-war foreign econ policy is related to the perspectives which condition their perception of policy alternatives. In Congressional hearings & in the recommendations of study groups, deliberations over foreign econ policy have been confined to issues which reflect an ideological split within the business elite. One segment of this elite (the `fundamentalists') adheres rigorously to traditional precepts of laissez-faire capitalism & limited US involvement in the domestic affairs of other countries; another segment of this elite (the `progressives') exhibits a willingness to reconcile these traditional precepts with policy innovations designed to make econ aid pol'ally effective. The split between groups holding these 2 perspectives has been evident throughout the post-WWII period in deliberations over the major programs of foreign econ aid-from Bretton Woods (1943) to the Development Loan Fund (1957). IPSA.