Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World (91 page)

Wilhelm II (kaiser of Germany), 21, 35, 36, 66–67, 87, 88, 99, 101, 182

Wilson, Daniel, 65–66, 257
n

Wilson, Woodrow

and Federal Reserve Board, 57, 173, 174

health of, 138

and isolationism, 138

and Keynes, 115, 132, 170

Meyer on staff of, 367

at Paris Peace Conference, 107, 170

and plan for financial reconstruction of Europe, 132

and reparations, 107, 116, 132

and Strong’s internationalism, 132

and Treaty of Versailles, 138

Woodin, William, 453, 454, 461, 471

World Bank, 381

World Economic Conference (London, 1933), 461, 466–71

World War I

and balance of financial power, 135

borrowing to pay for, 130–54

casualties in, 100, 137, 219, 257

central banks role in, 76

costs of, 89

early months of, 73–74

ending of, 99–100

financial system as casualty of, 7

funding for, 76, 100, 491

legacy of, 100

material destruction during, 100

optimism about duration of, 74–75

spending on, 76, 100

U.S. entry into, 93–94

World War II, 6, 475, 491

World War Foreign Debt Commission, 140, 143

Young Liberal Association, 102

Young, Owen D.

appearance of, 199

and Dawes Committee/Plan, 199, 200–201, 202, 207, 213, 215–16, 315, 331

and divisiveness within Fed System, 321, 322

and French-German relations, 331–32

and German economy, 417

and Norman-Lamont agreement, 213

personal and professional background of, 199

selling of stock positions by, 342

strategy of, 200–201

Young, Roy, 319–20, 359, 367

Young Conference (Paris, 1929), 328–37, 339, 340, 341

Young Plan, 336–37, 340, 341, 344–45, 369, 395, 396–98, 401, 408–9

Zaharoff, Basil, 252, 340

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