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A Private Bank at War: J.P. Morgan & Co. and France, 1914–1918

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Martin Horn
Martin Horn
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MARTIN HORN is an assistant professor of history at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between J.P. Morgan & Co. and France during the First World War. It argues that the dealings between the French government and the partners of J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1914 to 1918 were characterized by personal difficulties between successive French representatives and the partners of J.P. Morgan & Co. Contributing to a strained relationship was the place of Morgan, Harjes, the French affiliate of J.P. Morgan & Co., within the House of Morgan. Herman Harjes, the senior partner in Morgan, Harjes, though a proponent of Franco-American amity, became disenchanted with his New York partners as the war continued. The feeling was shared by those in New York, who reevaluated the role of Morgan, Harjes within the House of Morgan—until the French affiliate's eventual disappearance in 1926. While sympathetic to France, and instrumental in sustaining French credit during the war, the partners of J.P. Morgan & Co. conceived of the Allied cause as the British cause, a perspective that led them to rebuff calls for greater Franco-American financial cooperation.

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Business History Review , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , Spring 2000 , pp. 85 - 112
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2000

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1 Edward R. Stettinius was recruited as a partner to head the Export Department. Reflecting the divide within the bank between the purchasing and financing functions from 1914 to 1917, Stettinius was not involved in questions of international finance. See Forbes, John Douglas, Stettinius, Sr: Portrait of a Morgan Partner (Charlottesville, Va., 1974), 44–64.Google Scholar Not all British and French purchases made in the United States were handled by J.P. Morgan & Co. However, the firm did handle the bulk of British and French buying in the United States. Purchasing issues could on occasion create disputes. A good example is the British purchase of rifles in 1916 which eventually had to be referred to the Cabinet for resolution. See Burk, Kathleen, Britain, America and the Sinews of War (Boston, 1985), 41–42Google Scholar.

2 Difficulties associated with archival materials have probably played some part in producing this situation. Of the leading wartime figures in the bank, the Lamont collection at the Baker Library is well known to historians. Henry P. Davison left no private papers; the existence of the J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers in the Pierpont Morgan Library was denied for decades, and these were opened to scholars only in the 1980s; the Morgan Grenfell papers are deposited in the Guildhall Library but restrictions remain in place; and little survived in the way of Morgan, Harjes documents.

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4 Carosso, Vincent, The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913 (Cambridge, Mass., 1987)Google Scholar. Carossos papers were bequeathed to the Pierpont Morgan Library and now form a part of the archival collection. A number of typescript chapters dealing with the First World War exist in what was apparently planned as a study reaching into the interwar period. I would like to thank Mr. David Wright, formerly the archivist at the Pierpont Morgan Library, for this information. There is a substantial literature on the twin themes of European reconstruction and American involvement therein and Anglo-American relations in the postwar world. Among the more important works are Schuker, Stephen, The End of French Pre-dominance in Europe (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976)Google Scholar; Silverman, Dan P., Reconstructing Europe after the Great War (Cambridge, Mass., 1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hogan, Michael, Informal Entente: the Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928 (Columbia, S.C., 1977)Google Scholar; and Costigliola, Frank, Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1984).Google Scholar

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12 On the pre-war history of the House of Morgan, Carosso, The Morgans, is authoritative. See as well Strouse, Jean, Morgan: American Financier (New York, 1999)Google Scholar. Unfortunately, no substantive body of Morgan, Harjes archival material has survived. It seems likely that the records of the firm were dispersed with the German occupation during the Second World War and never reconstituted. The few papers held at the Morgan Guaranty offices in Paris, formerly the Morgan, Harjes offices, are unhelpful. The correspondence of Herman Harjes, business and otherwise, is sparse, with occasional pieces surfacing in the J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, the Morgan Grenfell papers in the Guildhall Library, London and the Thomas W. Lamont papers in the Baker Library at Harvard University. A typescript history of Morgan, Harjes written in 1933 by H. O. Loderhose, A History of Morgan, Harjes et Cie, 1872-1932, can be found in the J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Box 116.

13 No scholarly study of Harjes exists. The paucity of material regarding his life and career is striking. Harjes’ obituary in The Neiv York Times, 22 Aug. 1926, page 1 provides an outline.

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16 Quotation provided courtesy of Dr. Alan Albright. The original remains in possession of the family.

17 Carosso, The Morgans, 12.

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19 J.S. Morgan & Co. was the precursor to Morgan Grenfell. The latter firm was formed in 1910.

20 Jack Morgan to Vivian Smith, 16 Jan. 1906, J.P. Morgan, Jr., Papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 4/1. Aldenham was Jack Morgan's three hundred acre country estate in Hertfordshire.

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33 Speech by Jack Morgan in honor of George F. Baker at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 12 Jan. 1925, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 101/folder 280, #2. Remarkably, this was apparently Jack Morgan's first public address.

34 Jack Morgan, 28 Apr. 1916, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 71/folder 153/4.

35 The phrases “Morgan partners” or “New York partners” refer to Jack Morgan, Henry Davison, Thomas Lamont, and Dwight Morrow. While there were other Morgan partners in New York, it was these men who conducted all of the financial business with France. Morrow, as the most junior of the four, was involved much less frequently than his senior colleagues.

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37 Ribot was appointed minister of finance in the cabinet shuffle which produced the Union Sacree on 26 Aug. 1914. His tenure in this office lasted until 18 March 1917, when he formed a new government as premier of France in the wake of the resignation of Aristide Briand. Ribot then assumed the portfolio of foreign affairs in addition to the presidency of the council of ministers. His successor as finance minister was Joseph Thierry who was in turn re-placed in Sept. 1917 by Lucien Klotz. Ribot is thus the central political figure for French wartime finance. For his career, see Schmidt, Martin E., Alexandre Ribot: Odyssey of a Liberal in the Third Republic (The Hague, 1974)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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41 In a note drafted for Lord Cunliffe, who was shortly to head to the United States to assist in coordinating American dollar credits, John Maynard Keynes, then the head of the Treasury department dealing with international finance, pointed out that direct credits to France in 1915-1916 amounted to £20,000,000, a figure that climbed in 1916-1917 to £243,000,000. Keynes to Cunliffe, 9 Apr. 1917, “Note on the Financial Arrangements between the United Kingdom and the Allies,” Public Record Office, T 172/422.

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43 These developments can be traced in the Nye Committee report. U.S. Senate, Special Committee investigating the Munitions Industry, 74th Congress, 2nd session, 1936, report no. 944, part 6, chapter one, 9-29.

44 Jusserand to ministère des affaires étrangères, 27 Sept. 1914, Archives du ministère des affaires étrangères, Guerre 1914-1918/1456/368.

45 See Jusserand's report to Théophile Delcassé, the minister of foreign affairs, 29 Oct. 1914, Archives du ministère des finances, MF B 31.717, États-Unis 1914/597.

46 Jack Morgan to J. Ridgely Carter, 3 Feb. 1915, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 190. Carter was the junior partner in Morgan. Harjes, having been admitted to the partnership in 1914.

47 J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 41, Day to Day Memorandum, 26 Dec. 1914.

48 J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 41, Day to Day Memorandum, 1.3 Dec. 1914.

49 J.P. Morgan, Jr., Papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 41, Day to Day Memorandum, 11 Jan. 1915.

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58 The letter is nine typed pages long in which there are only three references to Homberg and Earnest Mallet, the delegate representing the Bank of France. They are never referred to by name, while the British delegates are referred to frequently and always by name. Jack Morgan to E. C. Grenfell, 12 Nov. 1915, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 12.

59 Jack Morgan to J.P. Morgan & Co., 21 Feb. 1916, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 35. See also the cables from the British ambassador at Washington, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice to the foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, describing the clash between Homberg and the Morgan partners. Spring-Rice to Grey, 2 and 5 Dec. 1915, Public Record Office, Foreign Office 800/85.

60 On the American Foreign Securities Company loan see Yves-Henri Nouailhat, “Un emprunt français aux États-Unis en juillet 1916: l'emprunt de l'American Foreign Securities Company, “ Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 14 (Oct.-Dec. 1967): 356-374.

61 James Brown to Benjamin Strong, 4 Aug. 1916, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Strong papers, 610.1, The reference was to Homberg and J. F. Bloch, who succeeded Homberg as the French financial representative in New York. Brown was referring to separate operations—Brown Brothers handled a commercial acceptance credit for France which appeared concurrently with the American Foreign Securities Company loan led by J.P. Morgan & Co.

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64 On which theme, see pages 98-99.

65 The phrase was Lamont's. Lamont, Across World Frontiers, 79.

66 Jack Morgan to Davison, 21 Feb. 1916, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 35/16646.

67 A transcript of the talks held in Paris is in Archives du ministere des finances, MF B 31.622.

68 Two accounts of these discussions exist: first, the Report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the British Members of the Joint Anglo-French Financial Committee, Public Record Office, T 170/95; and second, Procès-verbal, Archives du ministère des finances, MF B 12.677 A1. The latter is the more complete of the two.

69 Other firms had handled the raising of funds for France outside of the House of Morgan—Brown Brothers for example provided commercial credit to France. However, the City of Paris loan was the first of its type that was not handled by J.P. Morgan & Co.

70 Chernow, The House of Morgan, 193-195.

71 Roberts, “Willard D. Straight,” 27-32.

72 Herman Harjes to Jack Carter, 9 Nov. 1916, Morgan Bank Papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, 312.

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75 Until 1917 the British government obtained securities that were salable in the United States on a voluntary basis, offering various inducements to persuade investors to tender their shares. Not enough securities were being tendered, however, and early in 1917 the Treasury, through the Defence of the Realm Act, compelled investors to surrender securities which it deemed desirable. Full details can be found in Report of the American Dollar Securities Committee, 4 June 1919, Public Record Office, T 170/130.

76 Davison to Harjes, 20 Dec. 1916, Morgan Bank Papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, 312A.

77 J.P. Morgan & Co. to Harjes, 2 Nov. 1916, Morgan Bank papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, 312.

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79 Davison to J.P. Morgan & Co., 9 Sept. 1916, Morgan Bank Papers, 312/472.

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85 Jack Morgan to Jack Carter, 16 Now 1918, J.P. Morgan. Jr., papers. Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 15/24.

86 Davison to Jack Morgan, 23 Dec. 1914, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 34.

87 Jack Morgan to E. C. Grenfell, 23 Dec. 1918, J.P. Morgan Jr. papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 33/cables 1913-1921.

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91 Roberts, “Willard Straight,” 38-39.

92 Schuker, Stephen, The End of French Predominance in Europe (Chapel Hill, 1976)Google Scholar, and Silverman, Reconstructing Europe after the Great War, esp. chapter six, provide guides to the activities of J.P. Morgan & Co.

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94 Jack Morgan to George Whitney, 5 Nov. 1921, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 36.

95 Stettinius to Jack Morgan, 12 Apr. 1919, J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers. Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 33, cables 1913-1921.

96 Quoted in Forbes, Stettinius, Sr, 109.

97 On the plan to have Morgan Grenfell take an interest in Morgan, Harjes, see Edward R. Stettinius, Sr, papers, RS Box 15, folder 246.

98 Other Americans subsequently became partners, including Bernard S. Carter, the son of John Ridgely Carter, in Jan. 1924 and Mr. Benjamin Joy in Jan. 1928. See J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 116, Morgan et Cie, historical data.

99 Stettinius to Martin Egan, 20 Sept. 1919, Edward R. Stettinius, Sr, papers, RS Box 8, folder 162. Egan handled publicity for J.P. Morgan & Co. along with a variety of tasks that would today be described as “dirty work.”

100 Jay to Stettinius, 13 Oct. 1919, Edward R. Stettinius, Sr, papers, RS Box 11, folder 206.

101 The firm was renamed Morgan et Cie. See J.P. Morgan, Jr., papers, Pierpont Morgan Library, Box 116, Morgan et Cie, historical data.

102 See the comments by Schuker, The End of French Predominance in Europe, 12-13. For a lively attack on the idea that a decadent France inexorably moved towards catastrophe in 1940, see Young, Robert, France and the Origins of the Second World War (New York, 1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. A recent overview, which emphasizes the lack of consensus among scholars on the issue of the Fall of France in 1940, is Boyce's, Robert introduction to French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940, ed. Boyce, Robert (London, 1998), 1–10.Google Scholar

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104 Thomas W. Lamont, letter to the New York Times, 18 Oct. 1935, 22.