... to ensure that this stampede shall not rob us of all our gold, and so push us off the gold standard altogether. The consequence* of the suspension of the gold standard are hound to disagreeable. said the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his broadcast talk ...

... that the nation has had very narrow escape. In a few briet, incisive sentences, Snowden Aade it clear what going off the gold standard would have meant to everyone in the land, and especially to the working people. The Chancellor is not one who juggles with ...