... remain silent now that it has become a choice between a cut or a collapse. There is not a choice. For Britain to go off the gold standard is starvation for millions, sheer, stark famine for the ergorklng classes. A view of New digate Colliery. The Whole Audience ...

... finance are longer remote abstractions The man-in-the-street has been educated to realise that tne ramifications of the gold standard are not alone a matter for the higher flights of Government and finance but affect very intimately his life and work and ...

... due in the first place to war and the reparation debts deflation of currencies and tariff walls the inadequacy of the Gold Standard— have very cunningly lv politicians the haute finance of France It would to tell have tried to exploit monetary troubles ...

... Saturday Mr Bell is to speak on The Orthodox Banker’s View the Finance of Trade” Mr Hutton on Macmillan Report International Gold Standard” Mr room The remaining three months 1 revel in the opposite extreme— surrounded by the good smell earth and reek of dung ...

... crisis. At this moment, as the McMillan Committee have shown, the gold standard is in grave peril, and it is still doubtful whether, whatever we may do in this country, the gold standard can be maintained throughout the world unless immediate international ...

... ional, but it was the fact. A moment later, when he was explaining that there was a differeece between coming off the gold standard by careful pre-arrangement and toppling off it. Labour interruption of road of security and honour. It was better to go ...

... pleasure from compelling the repeated question. said: An effort was required to keep sterling not from coming off the gold standard, but from tumbling off gold. Day by day, he proceeded, reports, every one gloomier, were received and discussions as to ...

... able to pay back in gold what they had lent to us. Fearing that the anticipated German collapse might force us off the gold standard, they began to withdraw their money from London. Thus a heavy drain had developed before any mention of our Budgetting ...

... we were sitting round the fireside. He outlined the events of the past few months and explained what going off the gold standard meant, and emphasised that that was a menace to which British money had been alarmingly exposed in recent weeks. Action ...

... way, will address a meeting of his constituents on the midget next Friday. He will insist that we ought to replace the Gold Standard by a Tin Standard. CI CI Luck of the Week. Chewing-gum somehow does not go with a white evening tle.—Mr. Robert Lynd. ...

... Saturday Is the crisis over ? Has the real issue been met ? Or is Great Britain still in danger of being forced off the gold standard ? These vital questions remain to be answered at the close of the first week’s business of the emergency session of Parliament ...

... root of the trouble Machinery has enabled us to multiply production things which producers need the restriction of the gold standard won’t let them buy the goods they have made and are urgently wanting Our case is that of the growing boy who outgrown trousers ...