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grown wider: the corresponding figures that year were 4,547 and 711.

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8 As regards private enterprise, the pattern was more or less the same as in the other countries. One form of introducing American capital was to acquire a certain amount of shares of different banks. Thus International Acceptance Bank of New York purchased stocks in Bohemian Discount Bank and Society of Credit in 1920 and Kleinwort and Sons followed suit in 1923.

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9 As in Poland, Rumania, and Hungary, Standard Oil of New Jersey was especially active in Czechoslovakia from among the American oil companies. Here they cooperated with Vacuum Oil Company.

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0 Moreover, International Standard Company had also two affiliated companies in the country. On balance, however, the American economic presence was not very significant, nor was her political one. The American diplomatic corps in Prague was organized along the line seen in Vienna. Washington proposed to negotiate a general treaty of "amity, commerce, and consular rights" with the Chechoslovakian Government in 1923, as well as with the other countries of the area, so this move should not be treated as a special favor to Czechoslovakia.

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1 Besides it, there was an exchange of notes between the two countries in connection with the mostfavored-treatment in customs matters (October 29, 1923)

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2 which was prolonged next year.

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3 An extradition treaty signed on July 2, 1925 completed the, rather meager, diplomatic record of the U.S. and Czechoslovakia during the first half of the 1920s.

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4 OQ The data are taken from Josef Gruber, ed. Czechoslovakia (New York: The Macmillan Comp., 1924) 121—2. 2

9 Teichova and Cottrell, op. cit., 339. 3

0 The Czechoslovakian State owned 51 % of the shares and Standard Oil 49 % in exploiting the oil in Slovakia. Rasin, op. cit, 106. 3

1 Papers, 1923, Vol. 1, 866. 3

2 Papers, 1924, Vol. 1, 615—17. 3

3 Papers, 1925, Vol. 2, 32—38. 3

4 Papers, 1925, Vol. 2, 38—42. 84