... DEPARTURE FROM GOLD STANDARD REASSURING OPINIONS PLYMOUTH Interviewed The Western Morning News yesterday on the departure from the gold standard, competent judges in the West expressed alarm. They emphasized that the best way to restore the value of ...

... level, whatever that might be. Coming off the gold standard was not the tragedy it had been represented to be. by supporters of the Government and the Press, who had talked as if going off the. gold standard meant the end of the world. Sir Oswald Mosley ...

... NOT NECESSITY OF LIFE GOLD STANDARD SUSPENSION IN THE PROVINCES The President Glasgow Chamber of Commerce .Mr. Hugh McCree), addressing meeting of the Chamber yesterday, said: We must remember thai the gold standard not a necessity of life, and have ...

... present retreat from the gold standard was quite a different thing. The internal position of the country was sound, and that position must be maintained. England had not defaulted. It was one thing to go off the gold standard with an unbalanced Budget ...

... MR. EXPLAINS WHY GOLD STANDARD WAS SUSPENDED POUNI) WILL NOT GO WAY OF THE MARK Mr. Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, broadcasting last night on the suspension of the gold standard, said : The consequences are bounu to be disagreeable; in some ways ...

... WORLD AND THE POUND NO BUSINESS ON BOURSES CONFIDENCE BRITAIN PREVENTS The action of Government temporarily suspending the gold standard has had an lmmeuiate repercussion throughout the worid, and in the majority of ihe capitals yesterday the Stock Exchanges ...

... CALL FOR COURAGE. TUESDAY, SEPTExMBER 22, 1931. The passing as an emergency measure of the Gold Standard Suspension Act will relieve the anxious situation caused by the heavy withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England. Its immediate effect will be to ...

... there will be recovery which may conceivably lift London back to the gold standard before the New Year. In some quarters, however, there is tendency welcome the move from the gold standard and it probable that the Government will endeavour to stabilize at ...

... BANKERS BLAMED LORD MARLEY EVOKES PROTEST LORDS The House of Lords met yesterday readiness to receive the Gold Standard 'Suspension) Bill from the Commons. The Marquess of Reading, leader of House, answering Lord Parmoor, said it was imperative that the ...

... Ourselves and Europe. General opinion on the Continent wiill be found, I think, to be less impressed by our suspension of the gold standard than some of the political and financial writers. The French, in particular, have always regarded our return to the standard ...

... the position of the country is as sound as ever. is pointed out that there is no ■ similarity between abandoning the gold standard as the result of an abnormal international situation, but with a balanced Budget, good stocks raw materials and food, and ...

... Morgan and other prominent bankers checked the exaggerated tears regarding the significance of the British lapse from the gold standard. Adverse news included the suspension of a small brokerage house and banking trouble at Pittsburg. Wall Street buzzed with ...