American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover-Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929-1933 (Yale Historical Publications, Studies 17)

ix, 319 pp. "...presents a diplomatic history of the United States during the crucial years of 1929 to 1933, when many statesmen and economists were predicting the disintegration of Western society as the greatest depression the world has ever known swept across the United States and spread throughout Europe. ...Here... is the account, among others, of the events of the abortive disarmament conferences, of the formation of the Good Neighbor policy, and of the origin and effect of the "Stimson Doctrine" as a counter to aggression during the Sino-Japanese War."--jacket